2025-04-08 Anesthesia CRG F2F Meeting

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Introductions and Apologies

@Andrew Marchant 

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Matters arising from the previous meeting notes

2025-03-25 Anesthesia CRG Meeting

@Andrew Marchant 

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SNOMED Update

@Ian Green 

SNOMED is widely adopted across Sweden, and thanks were expressed for Sweden's hospitality during the Business Meeting. Ian will be working on a part-time basis. A new manager has been appointed to support the needs of the rest of Europe. Forthcoming Expo and Business Meetings were discussed.

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Ventilation new concept requests 

@Ian Green @Farzaneh Ashrafi 

General approach noted:
- If brand name, please note in comments - ie. not approved for inclusion in SCT international release.
- Duplicate - please indicate the current active term that is a match.
- Ambiguous - please name at least two concepts as either or replacements.
- Acceptable - definition, use case and authorative reference source provided.
- Otherwise not acceptable with rationale.

Discussion was held around proposed terms for modes of ventilation. The results were returned to the content management team. Several terms were not felt to usefully extend the existing classification, one appeared to describe a concept which SNOMED should reflect, and some were reserved for further discussion. Ventilator classification will have to reflect increasingly sophisticated control systems, which will often be computerised and have AI features. Additionally it was noted that some proposed systems made use of multiple inputs (perhaps including lab or physiological data) and some operated over a longer timescale than has hitherto been part of the control systems of ventilators (with blurring into the realms of clinical decision-making). These latter were reserved for future discussion. 

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Items for future discussion 

All

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Dates of next meeting

 @Andrew Marchant @Patrick McCormick 

Next meeting Tuesday May 27, 2025