Providing non-invasive ventilation outside of critical care

Hoyle, Marie-Claire

Marie-Claire Hoyle is advanced nurse practitioner; Rebecca Nightingale is post-doctoral clinical academic respiratory physiotherapist, Liverpool School of Medicine, and honorary consultant respiratory physiotherapist; Samantha Parker is registered nurse and ward manager, infectious diseases unit; all at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Nursing Times 118(6):p 25-26, June 2022.

Abstract

In March 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, as pressures on critical care beds grew, we rapidly developed a new ward-based service for delivering continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment. This involved multidisciplinary working between infectious disease, respiratory and critical care teams, and rapidly deploying enhanced training to staff with little or no experience of developing this therapy. The service has now treated more than 200 patients across several surges of Covid-19, and 120 healthcare staff have gained high-level competencies.

Citation Hoyle M-C et al (2022) Providing non-invasive ventilation outside of critical care. Nursing Times; 118: 6, 25–26.

In this article…

Setting up a ward-based service to deliver non-invasive ventilation
Providing rapid enhanced training on caring for patients on continuous positive airway pressure
Multidisciplinary working to take pressure off critical care during a pandemic