BIPAP/CPAP Task

The BIPAP/CPAP task encodes whether or not a medicine patient was newly started on your ward. It is stored in the Diagnosis tab in ccmdb.mdb because that is the only way we could store it when we started to collect it.

Only mark if this was a new start on your ward. If a task was done prior to patient coming to your ward or after patient is transferred to another ward, it should be marked as none during the stay on your ward.

• These items are included in: S_AllDiagnoses table which is in CCMDB.mdb.

Possible entries for BiPAP/CPAP:

• • 100400 -BIPAP/CPAP None
  • 100401 -BIPAP/CPAP Yes

• what is: BIPAP/CPAP

Patient managed?

If a patient managing their own BiPAP then this should not be marked. However, if it was newly started during this admission, mark it.

• • thanks for putting the question out here. The workload we track is for a new starts as instructed above. Patient manages own but nurse helping, not tracking. That is how medicine drew the line for this item.
• This is difficult to differentiate as it is poorly documented sometimes. For example a pt that has been on cpap or bipap at home now comes into the hospital with a condition where they cannot manage the bipap on their own (like a stroke or fever, etc). It would be much simpler to identify all bipap patients rather then trying to figure out which patients can manage their bipap on their own. I wonder what the rationale for this was?? Some of our tasks are not done by ward nurses (like dialysis), but we still track this. --LKolesar 12:22, 2014 November 17 (CST)
  • Only used to track New starts for this item. No changes.Trish Ostryzniuk 16:56, 2014 November 17 (CST)
    • Question answered. Please clean up article to just contain instruction. thanks for your input!

Optiflow

Optiflow is not CPAP or BIPAP so don't mark this task for patients with Optiflow.

Data Structure

the list of options is in S_AllDiagnoses and the actual data is stored in L_Dxs.

Legacy

Task items replaced iTISS December 15, 2006.