LTV

The "Filter" Variable is used to tag those CCU patients that are co-managed by CCU & MICU attending service at the teaching hospitals (HSC & STB).

This code applies to coronary care patients who are deemed "too sick" for the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) and are managed or co-managed in the Medical ICU because they required one or more of:

• ventilation
• inotropes
• central lines
• IABP

Tags used for ICU:

• CC - intubated/ventilated patient in MICU under care of cardiology service or co-managed with MICU attending
• CCN - not ventilated but requires inotrope support, IABP or central lines in MICU under the care of cardiology service or co-managed with MICU attending

Other Tags used for ICU & Medicine:

• LVT = Long Term Ventilator

Legacy Data

HSC Only, started 25 Sept 2003, stopped 2005

• B = CCU patient on B3 only
• H = CCU patient on H7-CCU only
• BH = CCU patient on BOTH B3 & H7-CCU during one admission

Instruction on adding LTV to PDA dropdown table

1. Open a patient’s file on your PDA.
2. Go to Vars etc tab
3. Click on filter field slot(this is located just below NOTES field) and you will see the drop down list.
4. Select EDIT POPUP LIST to enter table.
5. At the bottom of this window you will see the NEW button. Select that and a box will appear with the following: ENTER NEW POPUP VALUE
6. Type in: LTV (For now, please Don’t put – Long Term Ventilator beside this label, just LTV)

INSTRUCTIONS TO CREATE A "BLANK" PAGE IN THE TABLE FOR FILTER

1. Open a patient file
2. Go to the VARS etc. TAB
3. Tap on the FILTER box field to view the drop down list
4. Select EDIT POPUP LIST
5. Select NEW
6. Use your space bar on your PDA keyboard tap it once so that the cursor in the box moves over one space.
7. Press OK
8. Your Filter field should look as follows:

• a
• (Blank row) This is here so that if you unintentionally selected an item you can remove it.
• LTV-Long Term Ventilator
• b
• c

Discussion

• which of the above is still used and which is legacy? If I understand correctly, we will now use the filter field only for LTV, right? We can't use it for that AND something different. If we only us it for that, then all earlier use should be moved under the Legacy Data heading. --Ttenbergen 09:29, 3 July 2008 (CDT)
• Trish, you sent out instructions to add the "LTV" entry to the PDA - could you also paste them into here as well? The change will likely fail on some PDAs and have to be redone several times, so I would like to have the original instructions centralized for future reference. Also, those instructions could likely benefit from some clarification as I have had several calls with questions already. --Ttenbergen 09:29, 3 July 2008 (CDT)