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MedicalDevice

Thing > MedicalEntity > MedicalDevice

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from MedicalDevice
adverseOutcome	MedicalEntity	A possible complication and/or side effect of this therapy. If it is known that an adverse outcome is serious (resulting in death, disability, or permanent damage; requiring hospitalization; or is otherwise life-threatening or requires immediate medical attention), tag it as a seriouseAdverseOutcome instead.
contraindication	MedicalContraindication	A contraindication for this therapy.
indication	MedicalIndication	A factor that indicates use of this therapy for treatment and/or prevention of a condition, symptom, etc. For therapies such as drugs, indications can include both officially-approved indications as well as off-label uses. These can be distinguished by using the ApprovedIndication subtype of MedicalIndication.
postOp	Text	A description of the postoperative procedures, care, and/or followups for this device.
preOp	Text	A description of the workup, testing, and other preparations required before implanting this device.
procedure	Text	A description of the procedure involved in setting up, using, and/or installing the device.
purpose	Thing  or MedicalDevicePurpose	A goal towards an action is taken. Can be concrete or abstract.
seriousAdverseOutcome	MedicalEntity	A possible serious complication and/or serious side effect of this therapy. Serious adverse outcomes include those that are life-threatening; result in death, disability, or permanent damage; require hospitalization or prolong existing hospitalization; cause congenital anomalies or birth defects; or jeopardize the patient and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes in this definition.
Properties from MedicalEntity
code	MedicalCode	A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.
guideline	MedicalGuideline	A medical guideline related to this entity.
medicineSystem	MedicineSystem	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
recognizingAuthority	Organization	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
relevantSpecialty	MedicalSpecialty	If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant.
study	MedicalStudy	A medical study or trial related to this entity.
Properties from Thing
additionalType	URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
alternateName	Text	An alias for the item.
description	Text	A short description of the item.
image	URL  or ImageObject	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage	CreativeWork  or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity.
name	Text	The name of the item.
potentialAction	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
url	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of MedicalDevice may appear as values for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
usesDevice	MedicalTest	Device used to perform the test.

Acknowledgements

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