Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Dataset

The transcatheter implantation of prosthetic aortic valves is expanding extremely rapidly across the UK. This is a technology in the early stages of evolution, and for which there are currently few data on medium and long term outcomes. It is a technology with enormous potential, and there seems little doubt that it will play an important part in the treatment of aortic stenosis in frail patients unsuitable for conventional surgical aortic valve replacement.

NICE guidance published in June 2008 (IPG 266) supports appropriate use of TAVI, and suggests all procedures should be recorded in a national database.

Several members of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons have been working together to try to produce an agreed dataset for TAVI. The final version of these deliberations is attached (TAVI Dataset version 3.4).

It is intended that all units implanting transcatheter aortic valves will complete this dataset for each procedure, and that these data will all be gathered using the mechanisms in place at Central Cardiac Audit Database (CCAD).

A web based user interface is being designed by CCAD, that will allow direct entry of these data into the CCAD servers. If units wish to use their own database software, then the option to upload a csv file via the Lotus Notes user interface will also be available.

The dataset is available to download