Labs cardiac cath proc

What is an cardiac catheter laboratory¶

A cardiac catheter laboratory (cath lab) is a specialised hospital facility where doctors use minimally invasive catheter-based procedures to diagnose and treat heart and blood vessel conditions.

Capacity outputs¶

CARDIAC_CATH_PROC_LABS

Conversion archetype¶

time utilisation — FRM_TIME_UTIL

Operational constraint¶

Schedulable procedural operating time

Activity classification logic¶

All spells with a valid procedure code in cardiology (320) or paediatric cardiology (321) treatment specialties plus any spells in other specialties with the following primary procedure codes:

K63 Contrast radiology of heart
K75 Angioplasty
K60 Cardiac pacemaker
K62 Therapeutic transluminal operations on heart
K59 Cardioverter defibrillator introduced through the vein
K57 Other therapeutic transluminal operations on heart
K73 Other cardiac pacemaker system through vein
K49 Transluminal balloon angioplasty

Branch	Classification IDs
cardiology	CLASS_CARDIOLOGY, CLASS_HAS_PROC
catheter procedure	CLASS_HAS_PROC, CLASS_CARDIAC_CATH

Cardiac catheter procedure spells = branch 1 OR branch 2.

Branches should be combined as a de-duplicated OR cohort.

Workload derivation¶

Primary workload object: procedure hours

\[\text{procedure hours} = \text{procedures} \times \frac{\text{procedure time minutes}} {60}\]

Capacity conversion¶

\[\text{required cardiac cath labs} = \frac{\text{procedure hours}} {\text{annual operational hours} \times \text{utilisation}}\]

Assumptions¶

Subgroup	Assumption	Category	Assumption ID
all groups	procedure time	workload	CARDIAC_CATH_PROC_TIME
all groups	utilisation	operational	CARDIAC_CATH_PROC_UTIL
all groups	annual operational hours	operational	CARDIAC_CATH_PROC_ANNUAL_OPERATIONAL_HOURS

Known issues / limitations¶

Some included procedures, such as pacemaker insertion, may be undertaken outside a cardiac catheter laboratory depending on local service configuration.

Dependencies¶

No dependencies.