CASAP
Children's Acute Surgical Abdomen Programme
The CASAP study has now closed. Recruitment to the study ended on the 31st January 2022
The Children's Acute Surgical Abdomen Programme (CASAP), the HSRC's first paediatric initiative, will be delivered in collaboration with the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists and the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons.
Aims
CASAP aims is to characterise the type and quality of care being delivered to children undergoing urgent / emergency abdominal surgery (including appendicectomy). CASAP will be a prospective observational cohort study running for 12 months, and will launch in August/September 2019.
With your help, we aim to enroll all children between the ages of 12 months and 16 years who undergo an emergency abdominal surgical procedure during the 6 month study period.
This will be a consenting research study, which will be adopted onto the NIHR portfolio as a result of generous funding from the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists - therefore recruitment of patients will count towards your hospital's NIHR targets and bring research money in to support your future work.
Opportunity for Collaboration
We are very keen to build on the collaborative success of SNAP-2, NELA, PQIP and other projects by engaging every eligible hospital in the UK.
We hope that this ambitious project will encourage cross-collaborative work between ourselves, surgeons and paediatricians, and, as with the SNAPs, we hope to encourage significant trainee engagement.
As usual, all investigators will be named as collaborators in research outputs.
Register your interest at casap@rcoa.ac.uk
Further information
- Follow @HSRCNews #CASAP on Twitter
- Read our privacy policy here:
CASAP Privacy Notice (267 KB)
- Email: casap@rcoa.ac.uk
- CASAP is generously supported by the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists and British Association of Paediatric Surgeons.
