Welcome to this Anaesthesia Journal Podcast which is all about the the 7th UK National Audit Project (NAP7), and more specifically, the challenges of defining, studying and learning from peri‐operative cardiac arrest.

With the discovery of general anaesthesia came the issue of cardiac arrest during anaesthesia. It is thought to occur rarely, ranging from 2-13 per 10,000 anaesthetics and there is much that remains incompletely understood. As such, peri-operative cardiac arrest has been chosen as the topic for the 7th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

With us today we have the NAP7 clinical lead, Dr Jasmeet Soar, as well as NAP7 fellows Dr Andrew Kane and Dr Emira Kursumovic.