AeroComp - Aerosol precautions and airway complications

PLAN - Pan-London Perioperative Audit and Research Network

Chief Investigator: Dr Kariem El-Boghdadly, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

AeroComp was a prospective national service evaluation run with other trainee research networks around the country. It aims to assess the prevalence of airway complications during the COVID pandemic and any associations with aerosol precautions.

It involved 4 days of prospective data collection on all adult patients receiving general anaesthesia for non-obstetric indications within a locally-selected window within November 2021.

AeroComp was published in Anaesthesia Sept. 2022.

https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anae.15851

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