Medical Criteria – E

Medical Criteria – E

EXTUBATION CRITERIA:

• Patient must no longer have intubation requirements
• Patency: Airway must be patent
• Protection: Airway reflexes intact
• Patient must be oxygenating and ventilating spontaneously

ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTHEMIA:

• Diagnosis (2008 WHO Criteria Revised in 2016) requires meeting all four criteria

• • Sustained platelet count >450 x 109/L
  • Bone marrow biopsy specimen showing proliferation mainly of the megakaryocytic lineage with increased number of enlarged, mature megakaryocytes; no signi‑cant increase or le shi of neutrophil granulopoiesis or erythropoiesis

• • Not meeting WHO criteria for PV, primary myelo‑brosis, bcr-abl CML, or myelodysplastic syndrome or other myeloid neoplasms

• • Demonstration of JAK2 V617F, calreticulin or MPL mutation (or in its absence another clonal marker), no evidence for reactive thrombocytosis

Also read:

1. Criteria in GPNotebook
2. Criteria in NICE
3. Criteria in Statpearls