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SICSAG Daily (Scottish Intensive Care Audit Group)

Description

The Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) has maintained a national database of patients admitted to adult general Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Scotland since 1995. Each line relates to a day of stay in critical care.

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[{"id": "", "description": "Each line relates to a day of stay in critical care.", "name": "SICSAG Daily", "dataElementsCount": 46, "dataElements": [{"id": "", "description": "Pulmonary artery flotation catheter (version 0 only)", "name": "PulCath", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Heamofiltration/dialysis", "name": "Haemofilt", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "1/0.", "name": "Non_Invasive_Ventilation", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Other cardiac output monitoring (version 0 only)", "name": "OthCOMoni", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Care on level 3", "name": "Level3Day", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Complex dressings (e.g. large skin areas) (version 203 only)", "name": "Complex_Dressing", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Endotracheal tube", "name": "EndoTube", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Invasive neuro monitoring", "name": "ICPMoni", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Connected to a ventilator", "name": "Ventilator", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "O2 50% or more", "name": "ManageFifty", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Care on level 1", "name": "Level1Day", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "pseudo-anonymised id number", "name": "PSEUDO-ANONYMISED ID NUMBER", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Tracheostomy", "name": "Tracheo", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "CNS depression/seizures", "name": "CNSdepr", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Multiple trauma dressings used (version 203 only)", "name": "Multi_Dressings", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Major skin rashes or burns (version 203 only)", "name": "Major_Rashes", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Multiple vasoactive and/or antiarrhythmics (version 203 only)", "name": "Multiple_IV_VA", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This is advanced ventilation as per the usual clinical definition. \nIt is 1 where \u2018ventilator\u2019 = 1 but also either \u2018Trache\u2019 or \u2018Endotube\u2019 are 1. \n(The \u2018ventilator\u2019 field is 1 sometimes when a patient is just on a mask and this is not classed as \u2018advanced ventilation'.)", "name": "Advanced_Ventilation_derived", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Parental nutrition", "name": "ParNutr", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Type of cardiac output monitoring (version 203 only)", "name": "CO_type", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Cardiac output monitoring (version 203 only)", "name": "COMoni", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Care on level 2", "name": "Level2Day", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "High flow nasal oxygen administered at some point today (Y/N)", "name": "HFNO", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Enteral nutrition", "name": "EntNutr", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Potential for deteriorating", "name": "PotDet", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "No airway management", "name": "AirwayNil", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Recently extubated/airway control uncertain", "name": "RecExtub", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Central venous catheter", "name": "CVPline", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "ACP date", "name": "ACPDate", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "CPAP", "name": "ManageCPAP", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Other regional analgesic therapy", "name": "RegAnalges", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "id number to link the episode level data with the daily data.", "name": "id", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Nil", "name": "ManageNil", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Arterial line", "name": "Aline", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "One to one nursing due to agitation or epilepsy (version 203 only)", "name": "Neuro_OneToOne", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Please confirm the status of the infection suspected", "name": "HAI_Status", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "O2 less than 50%", "name": "ManageLFifty", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Epidural analgesia", "name": "Epidural", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "One vasoactive and/or antiarrhythmic (version 203 only)", "name": "Single_IV_VA", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "X-Ray for VAP,  or sample sent for suspected CVC/BSI (Y/N)", "name": "Suspected_HAI", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Inotropes/vasopressors (version 0 only)", "name": "Inotrope", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Mask/Cannulae", "name": "FaceMask", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Hypovolaemia", "name": "Hypovo", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Potential need for ventilation", "name": "NeedVent", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "General observation/monitoring", "name": "GenObs", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "no", "name": "no", "type": "PrimitiveType"}]}]
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  • Documentation
    Documentation
  • Language
    English
  • Geographic Area
    Scotland

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    Public Health Scotland
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Key Details

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  • Creator
    Chris Wood
  • Documentation
    Each episode will consist of one or more days stay in critical care - a one to many relationship
  • End time period of data covered by this dataset
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  • Formal release or publication date
    2022-03-03
  • Geographic Area
    United Kingdom,Scotland
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  • Language
    English
  • Provenance
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  • Start time period of data covered by this dataset
    2019-01-01
  • The dataset type
    dataset
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  • Update frequency
    weekly

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