Lithuanian Vital Signs Implementation Guide
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Lithuanian Vital Signs Implementation Guide, published by Lithuanian Medical Library. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.0.1 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7LT/ig-lt-vitalsigns/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

CodeSystem: SNOMED CT Vital Signs Extension (Experimental)

Official URL: https://tx.hl7.lt/fhir/CodeSystem/snomed-vitalsigns-extension Version: 2.0.0
Computable Name: SnomedVitalSignsExtension

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A set of codes that are defined in the Vital Signs extension to the SNOMED CT code system. To be used until they are adopted by SNOMED CT.

This Code system is referenced in the definition of the following value sets:

Language: en

This case-insensitive code system https://tx.hl7.lt/fhir/CodeSystem/snomed-vitalsigns-extension defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
1461000205102 Digital thermometer (physical object) A device used to measure temperature with digital readout.
2331000205106 Non-contact infrared thermometer (physical object) A device used to measure temperature via infrared technology that does not come into contact with the skin.
24031000205108 Thermoluminescent diode thermometer (physical object) A device used to measure temperature that uses a thermoluminescent diode.
641000205104 Computer aided auscultation (procedure) A procedure that uses a computer aided device to measure blood pressure.
911000205109 Measurement of blood pressure using intravascular transducer (procedure) A device that measures blood pressure intravascularly via a trandsducer.
961000205106 Wearing street clothes, no shoes (finding) The subject is wearing clothing but not shoes.
971000205103 Wearing street clothes with shoes (finding) The subject is wearing clothing and shoes.
24311000205101 Stadiometer (physical object) A device used to measure a subject's height.
23861000205107 Capnograph sensor device (physical object) A device that captures expelled air, either via nasal prongs or CPAP and is used to measure the number of breaths taken per minute.
23921000205109 Respiration strain gauge (physical object) A device wrapped around a subject chest that measures the number of times a subject's chest expands with each inhalation. This counts the breaths per minute.
24181000205106 Patient lift scale (physical object) A device used to lift a patient out of or into bed and also has a scale to measure the subject's weight.
24781000205105 Structure of left superficial temporal artery (body structure) A body structure of the superficial tempral artery on the left side of the body. Currently part of the Solor SNOMED CT extension.
24791000205107 Structure of right superficial temporal artery (body structure) A body structure of the superficial tempral artery on the right side of the body. Currently part of the Solor SNOMED CT extension.

Description of the above table(s).