HR

The HR field is used to collect a patient's heart rate. The unit used is beats per minute.

The details of collection for ICU and medicine are different. For the timeing and which value to use, see:

• for ICU: General Collection Guidelines for Apache II#When to collect, which value to use
• for medicine: MOST score timing of assessment

Atrial Fibrillation

When the patient is in atrial fibrillation, do not use the atrial rate use the ventricular rate.

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• Must be (>=10 And <=250)