Registry Patient Type
Medicine
The Patient Type on your registry pagecan take one of two values:
S for Surgical
Patients Admitted from OR (operating room) or RR (recovery room)
M for Medical
Patients admitted under a medical attending physician for medical reasons.
Critical Care
NOTE: HSC & STB only – Patient in MICU under MICU attending that are “cardiac type” patients whether or not they are stable or not , should always be coded in as “M” for medical. Only time this changes is if a patient is a surgical patient, then mark as “S” and in Var slot 5 put “SM”.
S for Surgical
- Patients Admitted from OR (operating room) or RR (recovery room)
- All trauma
- All Burns
- Upper GI Bleeds
- Intracerebral Bleeds
- Patients who undergo a surgery related to primary ICU admit reasonwithin 48 hrs of admission to ICU
- Patients Admitted from a surgical ward
- Pancreatitis in SICU patient
M for Medical
- Cardiac Arrests
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Patients whose Diagnosis does not fall into surgical or cardiac categories
- CCU Patients that are intubated or too sick for CCU (i.e. need inotropes or IABP**)
- Pancreatits in MICU patient (label as S = surgical if patient has surgery in 1st 48 hrs in ICU)
C for Cardiac
- MI
- Rhythm Disturbances
- Unstable Angina
- CHF
- Post Angio or Plasty - Stable
- Pacemaker insertions (temporary or permanent)
Things to add before de-stubbing
- Which of these codes takes precedence? I.e. an MI who codes becomes a...
- Clarification about pancreatitis - label "S" even if 1st 48hr surgery is not related?
- how about post angio... unstable?
- Pacemaker insertions (temporary or permanent) - are ther other than those two? If not, unnecessary to mention.