Jon Warwick is an NHS consultant anaesthetist employed by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He also works in the private sector both in anaesthesia and in aviation medicine. He is medical director for the UK base of Air Alliance Medflight, Birmingham International Airport. He is a commercial pilot with 2500 hours, type rated on the Learjet 35 and regularly flies as First Officer in the air ambulance role.
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…