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.