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Major complications of airway management in the UK: Results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 2: Intensive care and emergency departments (2011)
Journal Article

Background. The Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society (NAP4) was designed to identify and study serious airway complications occurring during anaesthesia, in intensive care unit (ICU) and the... Read More about Major complications of airway management in the UK: Results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 2: Intensive care and emergency departments.

New technology, new pedagogy? Employing video podcasts in learning and teaching about exotic ecosystems (2011)
Journal Article

This paper examines the experiences of undergraduate university students in response to the employment of video podcasts to support learning and teaching about exotic ecosystems. Six, 15-20-minute podcasts were made accessible to students through a v... Read More about New technology, new pedagogy? Employing video podcasts in learning and teaching about exotic ecosystems.

A qualitative study of the experiences of people who identify themselves as having adjusted positively to a visible difference (2011)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2011. Individual and group interviews explored experiences of positive adjustment among 12 people with a range of visible differences. Thematic analysis identified four main themes: importance of appearance; personal growth; relations... Read More about A qualitative study of the experiences of people who identify themselves as having adjusted positively to a visible difference.

Chlorhexidine and tooth-brushing as prevention strategies in reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia rates. (2011)
Journal Article

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common complication of mechanical ventilation after endotracheal intubation. The role of chlorhexidine and tooth-brushing has been considered as a clinical intervention to reduce infection rates, however, ev... Read More about Chlorhexidine and tooth-brushing as prevention strategies in reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia rates..

Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia (2011)
Journal Article

The conversion of natural forest to oil palm plantation is a major current threat to the conservation of biodiversity in South East Asia. Most animal taxa decrease in both species richness and abundance on conversion of forest to oil palm, and there... Read More about Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia.

'Wish YOU weren't here!': Interpersonal conflicts and the touristic experiences of Norwegian and British women travelling with friends (2011)
Journal Article

Tourism is often portrayed by the tourism industry, tourists themselves and tourism scholars as a liminoid site of escape, happiness and freedom from constraint. For many, however, holidays do not live up to this expectation. This paper challenges th... Read More about 'Wish YOU weren't here!': Interpersonal conflicts and the touristic experiences of Norwegian and British women travelling with friends.

Nature (2011)
Book Chapter

© Cambridge University Press 2014. To begin to understand what the term nature meant to the intellectual culture of Emerson’s time it is perhaps best to start with William Ellery Channing, a prominent New England Unitarian of the 1820s and 1830s. In... Read More about Nature.