NAP7: high mortality risk in neonates and very low risk in children

Tim M Cook; Richard A Armstrong; Fiona Oglesby; Andrew D Kane; Emira Kursumovic; Jasmeet Soar

doi:10.1016/j.bja.2024.10.034

NAP7: high mortality risk in neonates and very low risk in children

Br J Anaesth. 2024 Dec 6:S0007-0912(24)00682-2. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2024.10.034. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Tim M Cook¹, Richard A Armstrong², Fiona Oglesby³, Andrew D Kane⁴, Emira Kursumovic³, Jasmeet Soar⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK; School of Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Electronic address: timcook007@gmail.com.
² School of Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia, James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.

PMID: 39645515
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2024.10.034

Abstract

Editor-We congratulate Lyne and colleagues¹ on their initiative to explore and improve consent around perioperative mortality in children. Providing such data for families and clinicians is a key purpose of the Royal College of Anaesthetists' National Audit Projects (NAPs), and to this end, NAP7 studied perioperative cardiac arrest.^2-4.

Keywords: anaesthesia; children; mortality; perioperative; safety.

Publication types

Letter