MedicalDevice

Any object used in a medical capacity, such as to diagnose or treat a patient.

Type Information

• Parent Type: MedicalEntity
• Schema.org URL: https://schema.org/MedicalDevice

Properties

| Property | Expected Type | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | postOp | Text | A description of the postoperative procedures, care, and/or followups for this device. | | contraindication | Text or MedicalContraindication | A contraindication for this therapy. | | 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 otherwise life-threatening or requiring immediate medical attention), tag it as a seriousAdverseOutcome instead. | | procedure | Text | A description of the procedure involved in setting up, using, and/or installing the device. | | preOp | Text | A description of the workup, testing, and other preparations required before implanting this device. | | 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

| Property | Expected Type | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | 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. | | study | MedicalStudy | A medical study or trial related to this entity. | | funding | Grant | A [[Grant]] that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also [[ownershipFundingInfo]]. | | recognizingAuthority | Organization | If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine. | | 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. | | relevantSpecialty | MedicalSpecialty | If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant. | | legalStatus | DrugLegalStatus or MedicalEnumeration or Text | The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply. |

Properties from Thing

| Property | Expected Type | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | digital | Number | A number from 0.0 to 1.0 representing the degree of digital vs physical embodiment. 1.0 = fully digital, 0.0 = fully physical, 0.5 = hybrid. | | disambiguatingDescription | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. | | potentialAction | Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. | | additionalType | Text or 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. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide. | | identifier | URL or Text or PropertyValue | The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of [[Thing]], such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details. | | image | ImageObject or URL | An image of the item. This can be a [[URL]] or a fully described [[ImageObject]]. | | 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, Wikidata entry, or official website. | | description | Text or TextObject | A description of the item. | | alternateName | Text | An alias for the item. | | url | URL | URL of the item. | | subjectOf | Event or CreativeWork | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. | | name | Text | The name of the item. | | 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. |