CAISS – Spine UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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CAISS – Spine UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Is there a code for cervical spine injuries without further substantiation or no autopsy
confirmation of specific injuries? - Correct Answer- Yes, but it has a severity of 9
How do you code co-existing injuries to the spinal cord and ...
CAISS – Spine UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Is there a code for cervical spine injuries without further substantiation or no autopsy
confirmation of specific injuries? - Correct Answer- Yes, but it has a severity of 9
How do you code co-existing injuries to the spinal cord and the vertebral column? - Correct
Answer- They are coded as a single entry and only have one AIS code.
If a cord injury is continuous which level is coded? - Correct Answer- Only the highest. If the
cord is injured in more than one area, and the injuries are separate and distinct, then all the
injuries are coded
When do you code paralysis? - Correct Answer- It is coded according to its status at 24 hours
post injury. If the patient dies within the first 24 hours, code the status of documented
paralysis at the time of death
How do you code SCIWORA? - Correct Answer- It should be coded as spinal cord contusion
not further specified. It is most commonly attributed to the cervical region.
Where do you find a brachial plexus injury in the AIS dictionary? - Correct Answer- Under
the cervical spine
How do you code diagnosis of cord compression, or epidural or subdural hemorrhage within
the spinal cord documented by imaging or autopsy? - Correct Answer- Cord contusion
Brown-Sequard is an example of what type of cord syndrome? - Correct Answer- Incomplete
cord syndrome
Anterior cord, central cord, lateral cord are what type of cord syndrome? - Correct Answer-
Incomplete cord syndrome
Quadriplegia or paraplegia with no sensation is what? - Correct Answer- Complete cord
syndrome
, If there is preservation of some sensation or motor function, how do you code the injury to
the cord? - Correct Answer- Incomplete
True or False: Cord contusions and Cord lacerations include sections for incomplete and
complete cord syndrome? - Correct Answer- True
Name two types of disc injury - Correct Answer- Herniation and rupture
True or false: Subluxation in the spinal column is coded the same as a dislocation - Correct
Answer- True. The spinal column is unique in this.
What is another term for the atlanto-axial? - Correct Answer- The odontoid
What is the atlas? - Correct Answer- C1
What is the odontoid? - Correct Answer- A toothlike projection of C2 on which C1 pivots
Name two exceptions to using 650217.2 - multiple fractures of the same for vertebrae -
Correct Answer- Odontoid or major compression fractures are coded additionally.
What is another name for the odontoid? - Correct Answer- The dens
Name three miscellaneous type injuries found under cervical spine - Correct Answer- 1.
Spinous ligament injury 2. Nerve root injury 3. Strain, acute with no fx or dislocation
True or false. Can you code a stretch injury within the brachial plexus? - Correct Answer-
True
How do you code a palsy or a paresis? - Correct Answer- Usually coded as a nerve contusion
Where do you find cauda equina injuries in the AIS dictionary? - Correct Answer- Under the
lumbar spine
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