PATRN Projects - past & present
Below includes our current active projects in addition to projects published over the previous years
If you want to get involved in an ongoing study please reach out to the committee and we will see if we can accommodate your centre.
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Current PATRN Projects
PANDA-PATRN (2024 - present)
PANDA-PATRN (PAediatric National Database of Airway Management - Paediatric Anaesthetic Trainee Research Network) is a multicentre prospective audit on paediatric emergency airway management in UK District General Hospitals.
The objectives of the study are to evaluate national practice for airway management in non-specialist centres, focusing on equipment, experience of team members and risk factors of difficult airway management.
Participants are being enrolled from March 2025 - April March 2026 and data on emergency airway management is currently being captured in over 50 collaborating sites nationwide.
FIGS (2024 - present)
PATRN is supporting the research team at Evelina London Children’s Hospital with their FIGS (Fasting Induced HypoGlycaemia in Anaesthetised Paediatric Patients study, which is a prospective multi-centre observational study, aiming to develop a definition of hypoglycameia in children fasting before general anaesthesia for elective procedures.
FIGS is currently at the point study pilot at the Evelina, and are still open to recruiting participating centres.
If you work at a specialist paediatric centre which anaesthetises children as young as 1 month of age, and are interested in finding out more about running FIGS, please get in touch (patrn@apagbi.org.uk).
Previous PATRN Projects
PINEAPPLE (2023)
PINEAPPLE (PaedIatric caNcellation ratEs And PerioPerative clinicaL Evaluation) was a prospective observational cohort study to determine the frequency of children (≤16) being seen in paediatric pre-assessment clinics prior to elective surgery. Secondary measures also looked to establish the frequency and cause of on-the-day cancellation in addition to the incidence of anxiety during clinic visits and on the day of surgery.
Data from the PINEAPPLE study has been presented at the APAGBI ASM 2024, Newcastle. Write-up for submission to the British Journal of Anaesthesia is ongoing.
PEACHY (2021)
PEACHY (Prevalence of PErioperAtive Childhood obesitY in children undergoing general anaesthesia in the UK) was a prospective, multi centre observational cohort study looking into the effect of obesity on perioperative complications in paediatric patients undergoing anaesthesia.
The study was run with scientific support from the APA and over 100 sites were included.
The study showed an alarmingly high incidence of obesity amongst children presenting for surgical procedures under general anaesthesia in the UK. Results of PEACHY were published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
PAPAYA (2018)
PAPAYA (PAediatric UnPlanned DAYcase Admissions) was a national audit looking at the rates and common contributors to unplanned overnight admission following day case surgery.
Results of the study were published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
