Audit Committee
The audit sub-group was formed to promote audit in vascular anaesthesia. In early 1999 the society was able to provide financial support for a national audit of anaesthesia for elective aortic surgery. The audit has been published in the British Journal of Surgery:
In-hospital mortality from abdominal aortic surgery in Great Britain and Ireland:
The Vascular Anaesthesia Society Audit
British Journal of Surgery 2001; 88: 687-92
The entire membership of the Society deserve applause for their enthusiastic approach to data collection and successful completion of the audit.
Since then Phil Bayly has invested many hours in dialogue with the Vascular Surgical Society and we are developing a joint, ongoing national registry (similar to that of the cardiac surgeons).
We are now piloting data collection using an easy-to-use online web form. If you wish to use this form to submit data, you will need to register with us. Please go to the audit website for further information.
Alternatively, data can be submitted using an Access database, details of which can be obtained here.
Contact Martin Price or Sara Baker for further information.
