Abstract 188: Bridging the Gap: Development of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Diagnostic Interventional Registries in Resource Limited Settings in the West Indies

BACKGROUND The value of establishing a regional West Indies Cardiac Surgery Registry for patients undergoing Open Heart Surgery was discussed in Trinidad in 2010. Collaboration among regional partners including Mr Roberto Casula of the Imperial College of London, other stake holders, database experts and the Doctors Inn Research group (DIRG) has sought to identify and manage key data entry fields for this Registry. The need for a Caribbean PCI Registry was introduced and presented at the Caribbean Cardiac Society (CCS) meeting in 2011 in Trinidad. Over the last year, eight countries in the Caribbean with Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and their associated invasive and interventional cardiologists have been identified for participation in the registry. The initial countries are Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Croix and Trinidad. In November 2011 a decision was taken to include all thirteen (13) Cardiac Catheterization laboratories in the registry. METHOD A template compris...