eBroncho

Descriptive Bronchoscopy - Thesaurus and Atlas

The application aims to establish a small and consensual semantic corpus one hand, to make this body the common language of experienced practitioners as the other training endoscopists and finally using it as tool nomenclature to best standardize the transmission and storage of information.

Bronchoscopy is an essential tool for exploring pulmonologists whose exploration field is constantly growing thanks to technological advances. Initially limited to the study of the surface of the large bronchi axial with the rigid bronchoscopy, it increased with the flexible bronchoscopy to the bronchi subsegmental. She is now exploring even further peripheral bronchi and even the alveoli, but also deeper bronchial wall and mediastinum.

The term just bronchoscopy is betting that by this atlas image shows the words to say. This initial semantic search has been much debate among pulmonologists of the French language Endoscopy Group (GELF) to find the most accurate and accepted synonymous words. This first selection was then validated by the sages of the Specialized Commission of Terminology and Neology competent for health. Each endoscopic situation, every topography, joined his SNOMED code (Systematized Nomenclature in Medicine) for the international exchange of this thesaurus. This fundamental work will then allow computerization of reports of bronchoscopy on the basis of this common language recognized and accepted.