Pandemic Flu
The group won one of the prestigious NIHR HTA Pandemic Flu grants 2009-10 to examine the infectious risk to patients and healthcare workers by evaluating droplet dissemination around non-invasive ventilation, oxygen delivery systems, nebuliser therapy and physiotherapy. The results show for the first time that non-invasive ventilation and physiotherapy generates large droplets, but not an aerosol, and that oxygen therapy generates neither large droplets nor an aerosol. Mathematical modelling was done jointly with Drs R Dickinson & J Siggers and Prof K Parker, Dept Bioengineering, IC. This work should directly influence NHS infection control quidelines
