HSPC Body Temperature Measurement Method/Device

SELECT SNOMED CT code system values.

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This value set has an inline code system http://hl7.org/fhir/hspc-bodytempmethoddevice, which defines the following codes:

Code Display Definition
30277 Digital Thermometer The electronic thermometer that displays body temperature in numeric values.
30522 Infrared Thermometer The thermometer that measure the temperature by the intensity of infrared light emission.
82735 Thermoluminescent diode thermometer Thermoluminescent diode thermometer is a thermometer that measures the temperature of the emitted heat from the surface of an area.
84301 MRI diffusion thermometer MRI diffusion thermometer is an instrument that uses MRI diffusion to indicate the temperature of a substance.

In addition, this value set includes codes from other code systems:

  • Include these codes as defined in http://snomed.info/sct
    CodeDisplay
    467862000capillary patient thermometer, mercury
    462983001liquid-crystal patient thermometer
    118376009thermocouple