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3 portions of the temporal bone - Answer squamous (vault) mastoid (base) petrous (base) The lamina papyracea is part of the _______________. - Answer medial wall of the orbit The iris, choroid, and ciliary body belong to the ____________. - Answer Uvea (part of the eye) The salivary gland includes what 3 additional glands? - Answer parotid submandibular sublingual If vessel injury is described only as "dissection" and there is no disruption, code to _______________. - Answer intimal tear, no disruption "Scattered" lung contusions or lacerations should be coded as _____________. - Answer unilateral or bilateral NFS Cecum injuries are included with __________ codes. - Answer colon Acromion fractures are coded as _____________. - Answer scapula fracture NFS Malgaigne's fracture is what type of injury? - Answer pelvic, vertical shear (complete disruption of pelvic ring) For hypothermia, do you round up? or down? when coding - Answer neither, code to whole number only Is Asphyxia a codable sequela? - Answer Yes "blood along tentorium" codes to __________. - Answer cerebrum Code soft palate perforation as ____________. - Answer laceration Code hard palate perforation as ____________. - Answer fracture If palate is not specified as soft or hard, code as _____________. - Answer fracture If carotid artery injury is not specified, what artery should it be coded to? - Answer common carotid If jugular vein injury is not specified, what vein should it be coded to? - Answer internal jugular What joint is rotator cuff injury assigned to? - Answer glenohumeral joint (shoulder) T/F hanging/drowning deaths with medical examiner's diagnosis counts as "cardiac arrest documented by medical personnel" - Answer True Pseudoaneurysm is coded as _____________. - Answer minor artery laceration What type of injury is a Morel Lavallee Lesion? - Answer degloving of an extremity or internal shearing Pterygoid plates are part of the ____________ bone and coded to the ______________ if injured in isolation. - Answer sphenoid, skull base T/F If pterygoid plates are part of a Lefort fracture, they are not coded additionally as a skull base fracture. - Answer True T/F A spinal cord injury (compression, epidural, or subdural) with associated fracture but NO deficit is coded as cord injury OR fracture, not both. - Answer TRUE What anatomical spine structure is pars interarticularis coded to? - Answer pedicle Persistent air leak (442203.4) in the thorax lasts for more than ______ hours, and is more severe than simple pneumothorax. - Answer 48 Intracardiac septum may also be identified as ____________. - Answer intraventricular septum Abdominal serosal tear is coded as a ________________. - Answer partial thickness injury "Hip fracture" with no other description is coded as ___________. - Answer proximal femur fracture (853111.3) "slipped epiphysis" in children is coded as __________. - Answer femur neck fracture (853161.3) When can you use the Caustic injury NFS (040099.9) - Answer only when specific location is not known What is retrobulbar hemorrhage coded as? - Answer eye, NFS (240499.1) What is nose amputation coded as? - Answer skin avulsion T/F mandible fractures documented as "minimally displaced" are coded as non-displaced. - Answer True - displacement must be significant Soft tissue injuries to the thorax or abdomen described as "degloving" should be coded as _____________. - Answer avulsion What structure is papillary muscle injury coded to? - Answer intracardiac chordae tendineae What are cauda equina lacerations coded as? - Answer cauda equina contusion What are named ligament injuries in the upper extremity coded as? - Answer sprain in the associated joint T/F Electrical injury w/cardiac arrest documented by medical personnel includes documentation from EMS or pre-hospital personnel. - Answer True Hole, break, or opening made through entire thickness of a membrane, wall or tissue of an organ or structure of the body. - Answer perforation Breaking open or bursting to forcibly disrupt tissue resulting in a hole, break or opening with stellate edges or devitalized/fragmented tissue, made through entire thickness of membrane or other tissue of an organ or structure. - Answer rupture What are GSW with missile "lodged in" bone coded as? - Answer open fracture T/F LOC codes may be used even in the absence of a diagnoses of "concussion" as long as the LOC is documented by a physician or APP. - Answer True Any penetrating injury involving the brain stem should be coded to _______________, no matter how many other regions of the brain are also involved. - Answer brain stem, penetrating injury (140216.6) What is the surgical neck of the humerus coded to? - Answer proximal humerus - extra articular (751151.2) What is the general structure of the chapters in the AIS dictionary? - Answer whole area vessels nerves internal organs skeletal What additional section does the head chapter have in the AIS dictionary? - Answer concussion What additional sections does the upper/lower extremity chapters have in the AIS dictionary? - Answer muscle, tendon, ligaments joints Represents AIS coding rules and conventions - Answer boxed and bold text Denotes inclusive or exclusive information? - Answer brackets Includes synonyms or occasionally, non-clinical terms - Answer parentheses Separates injury descriptors that are comparable in severity - Answer semicolons Identifies an anatomical structure - Answer bold type Used for proper-named anatomical structures or injuries, and for OIS grades - Answer italics What system used if the coder requires further degrees of injury specificity? - Answer localizers How many digits could the full post-dot code be for coder's using the localizer system? - Answer five What are the 2 components of the localizer system? - Answer localizer 1 (L1) localizer 2 (L2) _______________ includes any injury to an intracranial vessel resulting in its occlusion (e.g. intimal tear, dissection) - Answer thrombosis What is the coding guideline when an internal carotid artery injury includes carotid-cavernous fistula? - Answer code the carotid-cavernous fistula only, do not code the internal carotid artery injury separately What body region is the intraorbital segment of the optic nerve (cranial nerve II) coded to? - Answer face What body region is the optic nerve (cranial nerve II) coded to, if the segment is unknown? - Answer head What 3 nerves are included in the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII)? - Answer auditory acoustic vestibular