Dr Alastair Glossop, Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the NICE Scholar in 2010-2011 for the 'Evaluation of the Health Economic Benefits of Non-Invasive Ventilation', discusses his article 'Non-Invasive Ventilation in the perioperative period', published in the September 2016 edition of BJA Education. Topics discussed include using NIV to prevent post-operative pulmonary complications, patient selection and including NIV in a wider perioperative strategy.