Cardiorespiratory Care Blog

The Power of Twitter is a Curious Thing: Why You Should Start Tweeting

By Joe Middleton, Lead Physiotherapist, Weston General Hospital

Extended Scope Practice - Lung Ultrasound

Can lung ultrasound be useful tool for physiotherapists? Simon Hayward, Critical Care Physiotherapist...

Extended Scope Practice - Non-Medical Prescribing

Physiotherapists share the benefits non-medical prescribing offers to their practice.

Diagnostic Thoracic Ultrasound

Diagnostic Thoracic Ultrasound

Diagnostic Thoracic Ultrasound: Opportunities in physiotherapy

George Ntoumenopoulos, Associate Professor and Consultant Physiotherapist

Professor Eleanor Main - Career Spotlight

Professor Eleanor Main tells us about her exciting career in respiratory physiotherapy

On-Call Simulation - The Student Perspective

Two physiotherapy students tell us how simulation helped their confidence for on-call

On-call Provision For Specialist Areas

Kelly Morris from Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, shares how they manage on-call provision...

On-call Provision in a DGH

Sian Goddard, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Respiratory Care shares her experience of on-call...

Integrating rehabilitation...taking the step

Steven Jackson, Respiratory Physiotherapist at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, talks us through...

BTS Summer - Pulmonary Rehab Update

Research Champion Fran Butler attended BTS Summer on the ACPRC stand. Here she summarises the...

Reducing PPC's in Surgical ICU Patients

Lisa Kerigan, Specialist Physiotherapist at Manchester Royal Infirmary shares the implementation of...

EuroELSO ECMO Conference 2016

Allaina Eden and Chloe Apps share their experiences from this year's EuroELSO conference, held in June...

Can Anyone Do Research?

ACPRC Research Champion, Frances Butler, answers the question - "Can anyone do research?"

Characterising the research profile of UK critical care physiotherapists

Dr Bronwen Connolly discusses some of her current work regarding the research activity of Critical...

The Experience of presenting at the ERS, London, 2016

ACPRC Publications Co-chair, Emma Chaplin, share her experience of presenting a poster at ERS London...

The Evolution of the Surgical Respiratory Physiotherapist

ACPRC Surgery Champion, Charlotte Pereira, on the evolving role of surgical respiratory physiotherapists.

Respiratory Leaders in Physiotherapy Winter Meeting

Research in Respiratory Physiotherapy November 2016 Manchester (MMU)

The first Irish heart and double lung transplant - Petra Grehan

Ireland's first heart and double lung transplant - A case study and discussion from Petra Grehan

Cardiothoracic transplant - a comprehensive rehab pathway

Cardiothoracic transplant - From pre-transplant frailty assessment, to early rehabilitation with...

Leadership and Innovation

Stephanie Mansell, Consultant Physiotherapist at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, inspires us...

What is Leadership Anyway?

Rachael Moses, Consultant Physiotherapist and Chair of Respiratory Leaders in Physiotherapy, tells us...

ICS State of the Art 2016

A summary of the Intensive Care Society State of the Art meeting, December 2016, London ExCel

Mouthpiece ventilation: time to seize the day, for daytime NIV?

Karen Ward, Consultant Physiotherapist, discusses mouthpiece ventilation as a viable option for those...

Private Parts - An editorial by Ian Culligan

ACPRC's Vice Chair and Healthcare Change Manager at Bupa, Ian Culligan discusses private respiratory...

Home ventilation

Alison Armstrong, Senior Nurse Specialist for the North East Home Ventilation Service tells us about...

Setting up a physiotherapy service in difficult to control/severe asthma in children

Claire Hepworth , a specialist respiratory physiotherapist discusses her work in paediatric asthma at...

'Breathing Better' for World COPD Day

Today to mark #WorldCOPDDay our Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service helped to launch the Breathing Better...

Physiotherapy student funding: changes to NHS Bursaries.

Amy Bendall, lecturer and BSc. admissions tutor at Cardiff University, discusses changes to NHS...

My journey to lung ultrasound accreditation during COVID-19

My journey to lung ultrasound accreditation during the COVID-19 surge: My journey to lung ultrasound...

High Fidelity Simulation Training Feedback

My project aims to investigate whether High Fidelity Simulation training can improve the confidence of...