#NAP7 Vascular surgery & cardiac arrest: a short 🧵 A small specialty (2% of anaesthesia caseload) but -very comorbid patients -a high proportion of older & very urgent surgery -major, complex bloody surgery! 1/5

Themes that emerged from the vascular analysis in #NAP7 Of note although haemorrhage was the commonest cause of cardiac arrest vascular was the only sub-specialty in which it was the commonest cause Vascular also had some niche causes - eg reperfusion, hyperkalaemia Themes around advisability of surgery & futility were more common in vascular than any other area in NAP7 4/5