Andy Lumb FRCA is consultant anaesthetist at St James's University Hospital and honorary clinical associate professor at the University of Leeds, UK, specialising in thoracic anaesthesia. His research focuses on respiratory physiology. He teaches at all levels and lectures at postgraduate meetings both in the UK and abroad. He has authored many chapters, reviews, and editorials, and five editions of Nunn's Applied Respiratory Physiology. He is an editorial board member of BJA Education and an associate editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia.