What is Nela surgery?
Welcome to the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA)
NELA aims to enable the improvement of the quality of care for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy, through the provision of high quality comparative data from all providers of emergency laparotomy.
What is the Nela score?
The NELA risk calculation tool provides an estimate of the risk of death within 30 days of emergency abdominal surgery. It has been developed using the data gathered from patients entered into the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit between 2014 and 2016.
What is an emergency laparotomy?
An emergency laparotomy is a surgical operation that is used for people with severe abdominal pain to find the cause of the problem and in many cases to treat it. A member of the surgical team will assess you fully and ask you questions about your symptoms and examine you.