Are you using the vent for organ dysfunction? If so it would be out of the
window because it was initiated the prior day. I had asked CMS and you only use
initiation of ventilator for organ dysfunction.
Also, if the vent was set for 22, then you wouldn't use it. If the patient was
breathing
If the ventilator was set at 22 and is charted as such, you do not count the RR
as part of the SIRS component.
Here's the example from the definition:
"SIRS criteria or a sign of organ dysfunction due to artificial interventions
should not be used.
Example:
Mechanical ventilator rate set at 24
Was the vent set on 22 respirations? Or did the physician/nursing just document
"therapeutic" for the patient. If the vent was not set on 22 then you could
still use the 22 respiratory rate as SIRS.
Tara
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