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

Cook, Tim M; Armstrong, Richard A; Oglesby, Fiona; Kane, Andrew D; Kursumovic, Emira; Soar, Jasmeet · Br J Anaesth · 2025

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Editor-We congratulate Lyne and colleagues<sup>1</sup> 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.<sup>2-4</sup>.

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