Neil Crooks is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at University Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He is Deputy Medical Director for the UK base of Air Alliance Medflight, Birmingham International Airport. He has worked in the commercial and air ambulance repatriation industry for more than 10 years, co-ordinating and working as a flight doctor on numerous transfers.
Hypoxic respiratory failure in an air ambulance patient
Drs Jon Warwick and Neil Crooks discuss hypoxic respiratory failure and the effects of cabin pressurisation on patients with respiratory conditions, considering whether or not patients with high oxygen concentrations…