Hi Heather, Just a (non clinician's) note on the cuff size issue. The clinical focus for recording cuff sizes seems to be :- - The clinical need to demonstrate the measurements were performed appropriately, or not. - The ability to replicate measurement methods - Clinical audit
I suggest 1/ 'Adult' should not be use but rather 'Standard adult'. 2/ The addition of Extra Large adult (per previous communications) Finally, its worth noting that the dimensional ranges which these classes map to are different depending not least on the manufacturer e.g Classified Size Ranges: Small adult (17-22) or Small adult 22-26 or Small adult (18-26) Standard adult (22-32) or Adult 27-34 or Medium adult (26-34) or Standard adults (27.5-36.5) Large adult (32-42) or Large Adult 35-44 or Large adult (34-43) or Large adults (35-46) .. etc. Tom Seabury _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Heather Leslie Sent: 06 November 2007 09:21 To: 'For openEHR clinical discussions' Subject: RE: BP cuff sizes Thanks Ian and Jag - clearly the Scots are experts on BP cuff sizes, or just modelling similar things to me! Cheers Heather From: [email protected] [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Dr.S.Jagannathan Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 11:09 PM To: 'For openEHR clinical discussions' Subject: RE: BP cuff sizes Hi Heather The attatched reference from The American Heart Association may be of some help. Hope you are well Regards Jag -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Heather Leslie Sent: 05 November 2007 16:57 To: openEHR clinical list Subject: BP cuff sizes Hi all, Advice from clever clinicians please: In OBSERVATION.blood_pressure.v1 BP cuff sizes are currently: . Neonatal . Paediatric . Adult . Wide adult . Thigh I'm wondering if they should be slightly different ie: . neonatal, . infant, . child and/or paediatric, . small adult, . adult, and . large adult (or thigh) cuff Can anyone clarify for me? Thanks Heather _____________________________________________ Dr Heather Leslie Director of Clinical Modeling <http://www.oceaninformatics.com/> Ocean Informatics M +61 418 966 670 (in Australia) M +44 7722 064 546 (in UK) Skype - heatherleslie __________ NOD32 2630 (20071031) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail ********************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080104/4b20579f/attachment.html>
