NAP7 Case Reporting

Please find below a PDF containing some advice on reporting a case to NAP7.

 NAP7 Webtool User Guide.pdf (373 KB)

To report your case, or to check whether your case meets inclusion criteria, please email nap@rcoa.ac.uk.

ALL CASES MUST BE REPORTED ANONYMOUSLY. PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE ANY PATIENT, CLINICIAN OR HOSPITAL IDENTIFIERS IN ANY PART OF THE REPORT.


Please find below a PDF version of each section of the Case Record Form, along with a short description on what is included in each section. You may not need to answer questions in some sections of the form, depending on the case:

  • Screening and Filter questions

These ensure the case is eligible and that you only see the parts of the form that are relevant to your case

 NAP7 CRF 1 - Screening and filter questions.pdf (84 KB)

  • Patient Information

This section is for anonymous patient information, for example basic demographics

 NAP7 CRF 2 - Patient comorbidities and preoperative factors.pdf (96 KB)

  • General Form

The general form collects details on the pre- and perioperative management of the patient

 NAP7 CRF 3 - General form.pdf (157 KB)
 NAP7 CRF 3a - Acute physiology prior to anaesthesia.pdf (57 KB)
 NAP7 CRF 3b - Anaesthetic details.pdf (59 KB)

  • Drugs given before cardiac arrest

Details are requested here on drugs, fluids, blood products, and regional/local anaesthesia given to patients before the cardiac arrest

 NAP7 CRF 4 - Drugs given before cardiac arrest.pdf (99 KB)

  • Unanticipated events/diagnoses

This section will allow you to report any unanticipated emergency events or abnormalities of physiology which were present, e.g. difficult intubation

 NAP7 CRF 5 - Unanticipated events.pdf (83 KB)

  • Cardiac arrest data

This form is based on the Utstein template for cardiac arrest reporting and collects details on the recognition and management of cardiac arrest

 NAP7 CRF 6 - Cardiac arrest data.pdf (124 KB)

  • Specialty-specific forms

This section contains specific questions for cardiac, obstetric, paediatric and vascular cases so may be blank if your case is not one of these.

 NAP7 CRF 7 - Specialty-specific forms.pdf (76 KB)

  • SI-1 and SI-2

This section collects data only for cases which meet the special inclusion criteria. Much of the rest of the form is not required for these cases and will be blank.

 NAP7 CRF 8 - Special inclusion criteria.pdf (95 KB)

  • Outcomes & ethnography

This section is to report patient and staff outcome data.

 NAP7 CRF 9 - Outcomes.pdf (85 KB)

Further information