Morkane, Clare M.
McKenna, Helen
Cumpstey, Andrew F.
Oldman, Alex H.
Grocott, Michael P. W.
Martin, Daniel S.
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Carter, Louise
Razavi, Cyrus
Howle, Ryan
Eeles, Alex
Tatham, Kate C.
Winter, Victoria
Al-Shammari, Lena
Lignos, Leda
Dhotar, Gagandeep
Karsten, Emma
Lowe, Justine
Young, Noel
Iles, Lindsey
Coulter, Colin
Shaw, Michael
Gleeson, Liam
Zucco, Liana
Cox, Charlie
Bruce, Amanda
Cronin, John N.
Arlidge, James
Krol, Rachel
Abouelmagd, Rasha
Dart, Phil
Ahmed, Mohamed
Shammas, Kathy
Webb, Carly
Foster, Luke
Kanji, Rafi
Hodnett, Darragh
Suntharanathan, Lusha
Sangam, Amy
Malik, Zain
Jeffreys, Eleanor
Williamson, Jonathan
Chandler, Marika
Dennison, Nick
Schumacher, Jan
El-Boghdadly, Kariem
Odor, Peter
Laycock, Helen
Anwar, Sibtain
Wordsworth, Harriet
Wickham, Alex
Elnour, Shaima
Burdett, Edward
Phillips, Sioned
Oliver, Matt
Johnston, Carolyn
Patel, Mitul
Grailey, Kate
Lo, Queenie
Frost, Benjamin
O’Carroll, James
Torrance, Hew D.
Grover, Vimal
Whiten, Chris
Lowe, Justine
Dickinson, Matthew C.
Cowie, Vanessa
George, Richard
Giles, Julian
Mohr, Otto
Mosharaf, Ahmer
Brammall, Jon
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Plumb, Jamie
Jackson, Alexander I. R.
Jolly, Erica
Wilkins, Huw
Wong, Hannah
Shuttleworth, Suzanne
Hayward, Nick
Joseph Kinsella, J.
Killick, Emma
Daubeny, Tom
McGlone, Philip
Yelland, Sophie
Goonetilleke, Kushmandinie
Tuckey, Victoria
Radford, Alan
Fry, Rebecca
Rose, Jessie
Patel, Mukunder
Cutler, Hugh
Blethyn, Kate
Whittles, Jeremy
Stevens, Paul
Sands, Rebecca
Taylor, Matt
Linton, Fiona
Blincoe, Tom
Chumas, Lucy
Bates, Sarah
Lightfoot, Heidi
Shields, Olivia
Riccio, Francesca
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF))
Article History
Received: 4 May 2018
Accepted: 6 July 2018
First Online: 24 July 2018
Change Date: 24 October 2018
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Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research and development departments at both the Royal Free Hospital and University Hospital Southampton reviewed the study separately and agreed that as the study was a service evaluation, research ethics approval was not required. Local governance approval was obtained at every participating centre.
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: Professor Michael P. W. Grocott (MPWG) serves on the medical advisory board of Sphere Medical Ltd. and is a director of Oxygen Control Systems Ltd. He has received honoraria for speaking for and/or travel expenses from BOC Medical (Linde Group), Edwards Lifesciences and Cortex GmBH. MPWG leads the Xtreme Everest Oxygen Research Consortium and the Fit-4-Surgery research collaboration. Some of this work was undertaken at University Southampton NHS Foundation Trust–University of Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. MPWG serves as the UK NIHR CRN national specialty group lead for Anaesthesia Perioperative Medicine and Pain and is an elected council member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, an elected board member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and president of the Critical Care Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Mike Grocott is the Editor-in-Chief of the Perioperative Medicine.Daniel Martin has received consultancy fees from Siemens Healthcare and Masimo and lecture honoraria from Edwards Lifesciences and Deltex Medical. He is also a Director of Oxygen Control Ltd.Dr. Andrew Cumpstey is currently funded through the NIHR as an Academic Clinical Fellow. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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