TISS76-General Care

TISS therapeutic variables T81 to t89

• 81 - Dressing Routine - Simple dressings-routine practice per 24 hr. period. Arterial line, Swan ganz,trach care, NG dressing change. Each site or a specific site has 1 or 2 dressing changes per 24 hr period at the most.
• 82 - Dressing Multiple - Any dressings that are above & beyond what I considered routine in your ICU. E.g. numerous bedsores, excessive bleeding from any site for post-ops or medical patients, traumas or post-ops with an open abdomen. DEATH-morgue prep (if done by bedside nurse. Each dressing site, or a particular site requiring 3 or more dressings per 24 hr. period.
• 83 - Extensive wound care - Burns 30% 3rd degree or bleeding required packing more than once per shift.

• Do other centers find that routine dressing changes are being marked for everyday that a pt is in ICU? It is hard to quality check because every little dressing change is not always charted. I have been leaving it if it marked. Any comments?--MWaschuk 09:48, 3 December 2008 (CST)

• 86 - Drainage tube(s) Hemovac/ any type of tube.

o EXCEPT THE FOLLOWING which are found elsewhere on the TISS form:

               + foley is #50
               + Chest tube is #40
               + Ostomy is # 85 

• 87 - Orthopedic Traction-standard -Single weight
• 88 - Orthopedic Traction-complex - 2 or more weights, C-Spine, Halo