Report of G.M.C. inquiry.

their much lower mortality, had been included, and all this data must be provided if the claims made are to be substantiated.Except for one report of a controlled trial of aprotinin (Trasylol)20 no drug or regimen of treatment has been shown to be of unequivocal value in the treatment of acute pan- creatitis, and during the period of this survey no special treat- ments were given to the patients under review.Twenty-two patients did receive aprotinin in effective dosage but this was not until 1968 and 1969, after the "complete" years used for the detailed statistical analysis.It is therefore interesting that when the absolute mortality for a first attack of acute pancreatitis, which was found to be 9 per million population, was taken and expressed as a percentage of the total number of cases collected, the case mortality rate was still of the order of 17% during the years 1961-7 in the Bristol clinical area.