Birth event—type of anaesthesia administered

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Birth event
Definition:	The sequence of actions by which a baby and the afterbirth (placenta) are expelled or extracted from the uterus at childbirth. The process usually starts spontaneously about 280 days after conception with onset of labour, but it may be started by artificial means.
Specialisation of:	Life event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:	University of Oxford 2002. Concise Colour Medical Dictionary 3rd ed. UK: Oxford University Press

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:	Type of anaesthesia administered
Definition:	The type of anaesthesia administered to an individual.
Property group:	Service provision event

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee
Origin:	Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 2011

Data element concept attributes

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:	Supersedes Birth event—anaesthesia administered Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 Has been superseded by Birth event—type of anaesthesia administered Health, Superseded 03/12/2020
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Birth event—type of anaesthesia administered, code N[N] ACT Health (retired), Candidate 14/08/2018 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018