D. Barney Walker

Summary Critical care admission may be necessary for surgical patients requiring organ support or invasive monitoring in the peri‐operative period. Unplanned critical care admission poses a potential risk to patients and pressure on services. Existing guidelines base admission criteria on predicted risk of 30‐day mortality; however, this may not provide the best predictor of which patients would benefit from this service, and how unplanned admission might be avoided.

Summary Background and Objective Despite literature that spans twenty years describing the barriers to asthma self‐management in adolescents, successful, clinically based interventions to address this important issue are lacking.

Despite literature that spans twenty years describing the barriers to asthma self‐management in adolescents, successful, clinically based interventions to address this important issue are lacking.