Background The British Thoracic Society (BTS) published the guideline,'The use of non-
invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure', in 2002. 1 This was in response to trials …

British Thoracic Society/Intensive Care Society Guideline for the ventilatory management of
acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in adults | BMJ Open Respiratory Research Skip to …

Introduction The purpose of the quality standards document is to provide healthcare
professionals, commissioners, service providers and patients with a guide to standards of …

Acute ventilatory failure in patients with severe hypercapnic and hypoxemic respiratory
failure may require endotracheal intubation (ETI) and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) …

Quoted rates of complications following tracheostomy insertion vary greatly, with little
information available on complications occurring in patients with tracheostomies in situ or …

Percutaneous tracheostomy has become a wellestablished procedure on the intensive care
unit (ICU) for patients requiring prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) …

Despite continuing medical advances, mortality following a critical care admission is
approximately 20%, with 60% of these deaths occurring after the decision to withdraw active …

The process of successfully weaning patients from invasive mechanical ventilation is a great
challenge for all healthcare providers working in critical care. Despite several recent …

In the United Kingdom, surgical procedures to treat uveal tumours are traditionally
performed under general anaesthetic (GA), as there may be significant intraoperative …

2. Grieco DL, Anzellotti GM, Russo A, et al. Airway closure during surgical
pneumoperitoneum in obese patients. Anesthesiology 2019; 131: 58e73 3. Chen L, Del …