Glossary entry

Japanese term or phrase:

上限値異常値超

English translation:

above upper panic limit

Added to glossary by Shirley Foo
Aug 14, 2020 14:54
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Japanese term

上限値異常値超

Japanese to English Medical Medical (general)
This is from a blood test report, and the full sentence is simply "H:上限値超; HH:上限値異常値超".
I couldn't find much info about 上限値異常値超, but I found the meaning of HH, which is "above upper panic limit".
I'm not sure if "above upper panic limit" is a suitable translation for 上限値異常値超.

Appreciate any help here. Thanks.

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above upper panic limit

“H” and “HH” appear to be codes used in the Public Health Information Network Vocabulary Access and Distribution System (PHIN VADS) and in the international Health Level 7 (HL7) medical software standard. There does not seem to be much information available online about these codes, especially in Japanese, because apparently they are for internal use by specialists and are rarely shown to patients.

According to https://www.hl7.org/fhir/v3/ObservationInterpretation/cs.htm... in HL7 "HH" is a "code" that should display the message "Critical high" on a machine, and it has the following definition: "The result for a quantitative observation is above a reference level at which immediate action should be considered for patient safety (as defined for the respective test procedure). Synonym: Above upper panic limits."

Analyzing “上限値異常値超” piece by piece, “上限値” means “upper limit (value)”, “異常値” means “abnormal value”, and “超” means “exceeds” or “more than”, so literally “上限値異常値超” would mean “exceeds abnormal value (of) upper limit (value)”. Since that meaning sounds a lot like the meaning of “above a reference level at which immediate action should be considered for patient safety”, I would assume that “上限値異常値超” is meant to be the Japanese concept name for what PHIN VADS and HL7 give as “critical high” or “above upper panic limit”. It therefore ought to be safe to translate “上限値異常値超” as “above upper panic limit”.
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1 day 14 hrs

Hyper High Level

This I took from H for High and HH for Hyper High.
Note from asker:
Thanks for the suggestion, bishan! I went ahead with "above upper panic limit" this time so that it's closer to the meaning of the source text
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