Submitted by Sheri_Tejedor_CDC on 2021-04-15
Data Element: "Airway Device Route" for Mechanical Ventilation
Invasive mechanical ventilation is an important clinical intervention for clinicians, clinical researchers and public health entities to track. Invasive mechanical ventilation can signify acute respiratory failure, which is an important clinical outcome. During a pandemic, understanding the burden on health systems and severity of illness of affected patients requires knowledge of the use of invasive mechanical ventilation in a facility for surveillance. Documentation of an artificial airway and use of a ventilator is part of standard clinical practice. Every patient on a ventilator will have the airway type documented (in addition to ventilator modes) in their clinical record of care. In most cases, patients being invasively ventilated will have an endotracheal tube documented as the route of oxygen delivery (as opposed to a face mask or nasal cannula) and this alone will be sufficient to find the patients who are on a ventilator. In a few scenarios (use of a tracheostomy), additional information will be necessary to find these patients. We propose that a new data element: airway device route/oxygen delivery route is sufficient to determine which patients are receiving invasive ventilation (vs oxygen alone vs non-invasive ventilation). This is the least burdensome method of finding patients who are invasively ventilated and does not require details about ventilator modes. We have spoken with multiple clinicians including the following clinical leaders of major medical organizations and have support for using airway device route as a means to determine which patients are on a mechanical ventilator, and the importance of making this a standard USCDI data element. This data element is already in extensive use in Electronic Health Record systems and is captured as a regular part of clinical care.- Greg Martin, MD, MSc, FCCM, Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
- Craig Coopersmith, MD, MCCM, FACS, Professor of Surgery and Director, Emory Critical Care Center Emory University School of Medicine, Past President, Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
- David Murphy MD, PhD, FCCM, Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Patient Safety Officer, Emory Healthcare
- Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor, MD, SFHM, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Past Chief Research Information Officer and Medical Director of Analytics, Emory University School of Medicine and Emory Healthcare, Medical Informatics Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control
Submitted by marti.velezis on 2021-04-15
Device-related Data Classes and Elements
The FDA/CDRH would like to work with the broader interoperability community to ensure that the device-related concepts are validated and correctly modeled within USCDI. We agree with the current maturity of the device-related concepts. We would like to work with ONC to further advance the maturity of the proposed device-related data classes and elements currently specified in the Level 2 and in the Comments sections.USCDI_CDRH_DeviceComments.docx