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 for HSC and STB only
Patients in MICU under MICU attending that are "cardiac" type patients should always be coded as "M" for medical whether they are stable or not. The only exception is if a patient is a surgical patient, then mark as “S” and in Var 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.