Patient—type of health professional who administers sedation, bowel cancer diagnostic assessment code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Health professional who administered sedation |
| METEOR identifier: | 530135 |
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| Definition: | The type of health professional who administers the patient's prescribed sedation, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Patient—type of health professional who administers sedation |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | CODE 1 Colonoscopist A medical professional who administers a colonoscopy. CODE 2 General practitioner A medical professional who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients. CODE 3 Nurse A nursing professional who focuses on care of individuals, families and communities. Nursing professionals include enrolled nurses, registered nurses and nurse practitioners. CODE 4 Anaesthetist A medical professional who administer sedation that have the ability to bring about a reversible loss of consciousness. | ||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | Staff performing sedation should comply with ANZCA standards (ANZCA 2010). Deep sedation and general anaesthesia may only be used in the presence of an anaesthetist or other appropriately trained and credentialed medical specialist within his/her scope of practice. Non-anaesthetist medical staff require adequate training in the safe and correct usage of sedation equipment and drugs, and in the management and monitoring of sedated patients in accordance with the guidelines. | ||||||||||
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| Reference documents: | ANZCA (Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists) 2010. Guidelines on Sedation and/or Analgesia for Diagnostic and Interventional Medical, Dental or Surgical Procedures. Viewed 23 March 2012, | ||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | See also Patient—sedation received indicator, yes/no code N
See also Patient—sedation received indicator, yes/no code N
Has been superseded by Patient—type of health professional who administers sedation, bowel cancer diagnostic assessment code N
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