2021-04-20 Anesthesia CRG at SNOMED Business Meeting

Apologies: Monica HarryPatrick McCormick  Steven Dain

Introductory presentations were given at the 2020-04-19 Anesthesia CRG meeting.

Slide sets are attached to the meeting notes

Steven Dain

item not reached at previous meeting. On agenda 20/04/21   Requests and comments from Steven Dain on SNOMED content.docx

New term requests were noted:
1. Left Atrial catheter - rarely used, but a valid request.
2. Number of lumens for a CVC. Often this is expressed as a pre-coordinated term (e.g. three lumen CVC), so there seems room for this request. Martin Hurrell noted that this area has been expressed in detail within HL7.

Is "Spinal" route justified? Intrathecal in SNOMED 72607000 can have wide interpretation, including lumabr puncture and intraventricular surgical drain. Intraspinal route also exists. As the term "intrathecal" already exists, adding "spinal" migth introduce unnnecessary scope for ambigguity.
"Intraspinal" route also exists, but has a very wide potential interpretation as defined. It includes Cauda Equina route, which might be better classified under epidural.

Continuous epidurals. Does the "Continuous spinal epidural" make sense? Zac Whitewood-Moores will discuss with the Palliative Care group. 231261002 Describes spinal/ epidural with no continuous component, this is probably best described using existing terms.
Epidural Anaesthesia vs analgesia. The distinction is difficult and relates to clinical goals and end-points - which change with the clinical situation. It is probably impractical to specify codes for this.

Steven Dain

Andrew Norton

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ISO 19223:2019 is established and its influence can be seen on available devices for ventilation. It will be important to avoid too much precoordination of terms inn SNOMED so that the resulting classification is tractable.

Progress with drafting SNOMED CT terms, to fit in the regime/ therapy hierarchy, for:

Modes of mechanical ventilation*

Ventilation patterns*

Inflation types*

*(These three define the ventilation mode)

Adjuncts

Review of existing mode content in SNOMED CT - consider retirements and replacements

Presence of acronymns was mentioned (noting that end-users may prefer these - particularly for more complex modes) and there was a discussion about hyphenated terms to describe modes of ventilation. Most descriptions should translate to SNOMED although some characters (such as "/" and "\") will have to be replaced by words. The modes need to be represented in SNOMED and perhaps the HL7 groups that ventilator modes are grouped in should also be represented, as this would be more difficult to include retrospectively. There would be value in including the Acronym in the final term, we will discuss this with Monica Harry . Andrew Norton will review the French version of the terminology to assess whether inclusiion of acronyms is reasonable. Ian Green commented that there is no guiding standard as yet in this area.

APRV is represented within intermittent mandatory ventilation, and may be implented using different ventilator patterns. Ongoing discussion will occur as to whether there is calue in representing APRV modes distinct from PC modes.

Some SNOMED modes will be ripe for review, when ISO 19223 is incorporated. These include:
55089006. IMV
243150007. Assist-control.
243143008. APRV.
47545007. CPAP.
Such terms should probably be represented as regime/ therapy rather than procedures.

Jane Millar noted that SNOMED content will have to reviewed when ISO 19223 is reviewed. A procedure will be needed to ensure this occurs.

to seek update on how products such as Plasma-lyte 148 will be modelled. Requests 743541/2/3 have been rejected. These are difficult to represent, and can vary between countries. Modelling of such substances is ongoing (Monica and Farzhaneh) may be able to inform the group of progress in this area. Martin Hurrell noted that such products are represented in the HL7 DAM for Anaesthesia. Final terms for these products may be complex - there will have to be synonyms to represent the names which are in everyday use for such products.