CCP Podcast- Lung Protective Ventilation- How to improve our practice.

 March 22

by Jonathan Downham

This is a chat I had with Dr Daniel Watkin about his QI project to assess compliance with the guidelines and how they went about improving it.

 You can find the paper here- 'Beyond Audit: Embracing QI methodology to drive improvements in lung-protective ventilation'

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