The emergence of Covid-19 has led to unprecedented levels of ICU occupancy and mechanical ventilator use in the UK and worldwide. With non-intensivists often...

A remarkable success story in the making I find many things slightly odd in reactions to health progress. Whilst whizzy new diagnostic and therapeutic avenues...

Abstract In the last article1 some of the challenges related to the acquisition and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) against the Covid-19 virus were...

Introduction January 20th 2020 was an auspicious day for two reasons; first, two Chinese nationals staying in York tested positive for Corona virus disease 19...

I often describe yoga as being a bit ‘magical’. As a genetics-researcher-turned-yoga-teacher, it is no surprise to me how the benefits of the ancient...

Access to safe surgery is all but guaranteed for us in the Western world, in stark contrast to those in low income countries like...

Limb surgery requires a bloodless field; blood needs to be shifted from the limb (exsanguination) and an arterial block created by using a pneumatic...

It is accepted that the source of most surgical site infection (SSI) in clean elective cases is the patients’ skin microbial flora (1). Surgical...

Waterless has recently introduced a highly effective new way to wash immobile patients that can save the NHS millions of pounds by reducing patient...

Patients undergoing sedation and monitored anaesthesia care for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are at a risk of airway obstruction . Sedation relaxes the tongue...