Emergency surgery

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	534125
Registration status:	Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016
Definition:	Emergency surgery is surgery to treat trauma or acute illness subsequent to an emergency presentation. The patient may require immediate surgery or present for surgery at a later time following this unplanned presentation. This includes where the patient leaves hospital and returns for a subsequent admission. Emergency surgery includes unplanned surgery for admitted patients and unplanned surgery for patients already awaiting an elective surgery procedure (for example, in cases of acute deterioration of an existing condition).
Context:	Admitted patient care

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	Surgery is defined as procedures listed in the surgical operations section of the Commonwealth Medicare Benefits Schedule. Surgery is classified as either emergency surgery, elective surgery or other surgery on the basis of a patient's presentation and subsequent care (not by time periods to surgery).
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Elective surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 See also Other surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Elective surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Elective surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 29/06/2016 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 29/06/2016 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2018-19 ACT Health (retired), Candidate 03/08/2018 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Episode of admitted patient care—unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following emergency surgery indicator Health, Standard 04/09/2015 Episode of admitted patient care—unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following emergency surgery indicator, Yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N Health, Standard 04/09/2015 Other surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Other surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following emergency surgery indicator Health, Standard 04/09/2015