vitalAperiodic

Purpose: The vitalAperiodic table provides invasive vital sign data which is interfaced into eCareManager at irregular intervals.

Links to:

• PATIENT on patientUnitStayID

Important considerations

The following vital signs are referred to as aperiodic vital signs, as they are not captured by the system on a regular basis (non-invasive BP can be triggered at an unpredictable variety of time intervals):

• Cardiac output
• Cardiac Index
• Pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (“wedge pressure” - PAOP)
• SVR / SVRI
• PVR / PVRI
• Non-invasive blood pressure

Table columns

Name	Datatype	Null Option	Comment	Is Key	Stored Transformed Created
patientUnitStayID	int	NOT NULL	foreign key link to the patient table	FK	C
vitalAperiodicID	int	IDENTITY	surrogate key for the aperiodic value	PK	C
observationOffset	int	NOT NULL	number of minutes from unit admit time that the aperiodic value was entered		C
nonInvasiveSystolic	real	NULL	patient’s non invasive systolic value e.g.: 78, 102, 87, etc.		S
nonInvasiveDiastolic	real	NULL	patient’s non invasive diastolic value e.g.: 40, 59, 49, etc.		S
nonInvasiveMean	real	NULL	patient’s non invasive mean value e.g.: 56, 76, 65, etc.		S
paop	real	NULL	patient’s paop value e.g.: 20, 18, 15, etc.		S
cardiacOutput	real	NULL	patient cardiac output value e.g.: 4.71, 5.81, 5.63, etc.		S
cardiacInput	real	NULL	patient cardiac input value e.g.:		S
svr	real	NULL	patient svr value e.g.:		S
svri	real	NULL	patient svri value e.g.:		S
pvr	real	NULL	patient pvr value e.g.:		S
pvri	real	NULL	patient pvri value e.g.:		S