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CAISS Exam Questions And Answers Well
Illustrated 2024.

Boxed & Bold Text - correct answer. Represent AIS coding rules and conventions and
contain directives to assist in the appropriate use of specific descriptions.

Brackets - correct answer. Denote inclusive or exclusive information.

Parentheseses - correct answer. Include synonyms or occasionally, non-clinical terms
and provide a definition for the injury description.

Semicolons - correct answer. Separate injury descriptors that are comparable in
severity.

Bold Type - correct answer. Identifies an anatomical structure

Italics - correct answer. Are used for proper-named anatomical structures or injuries,
and for OIS grades.

AIS .1 - correct answer. Minor

AIS .2 - correct answer. Moderate

AIS .3 - correct answer. Serious

AIS .4 - correct answer. Severe

AIS .5 - correct answer. Critical

AIS .6 - correct answer. Maximum

Range of AIS severity codes - correct answer. 1-6

Is "DEATH" part of the AIS severity scale? - correct answer. No

Does a linear relationship exist between AIS severity codes? - correct answer. No

(T/F) Injuries within the same code may not be strictly compatible. - correct answer. T

,AIS .9 - correct answer. Unknown

(T/F) The AIS single digit severity number indicates the relative severity of injury in an
"average person" who sustains the coded injury as his only injury. - correct answer. T

Average Patient - correct answer. Adult 25-40 years of age
Free of pre-existing conditions
Free of treatment complications
Receiving timely, appropriate care for the injury

Pre-dot Code - correct answer. 6 digits to the left of decimal point

AIS Severity Number - correct answer. A single digit to the right of the decimal point.

Body Region - correct answer. The first number in the pre-dot code stands for?

Type of Anatomic Structure - correct answer. The second number in the pre-dot code
stands for?

Specific Anatomic Structure - correct answer. The third & fourth numbers in the pre-
dot code stands for?

Level of injury within the specific body region and anatomic structure - correct answer.
The fifth & sixth numbers in the pre-dot code stands for?

(T/F) AIS assesses the severity of single injuries. - correct answer. T

(T/F) The ISS is the sum of the squares of the highest AIS in each of the (3) most
severity injured ISS body regions. - correct answer. T

There are how many ISS body regions? - correct answer. 6

ISS Body Regions - correct answer. Head & Neck
Face
Chest
Abdominal & Pelvic Contents
Extremities & Pelvic Girdle
External

Head & Neck - correct answer. Include injury to the brain, skull, cervical spine or neck
organs.

(T/F) Asphyxia is assigned to the ISS Head region? - correct answer. T

Face - correct answer. Include injury to mouth, ears, eyes, nose and facial bones.

, Chest - correct answer. Include injury to abdominal and pelvic contents, including all
lesions to internal organs in the respective cavities and injuries to diaphragm, rib cage
and thoracic spine.

(T/F) Drowning is assigned to the Chest region? - correct answer. T

(T/F) The ISS is the sum of the squares of the highest AIS in each of the (5) most
severity injured ISS body regions. - correct answer. F

(T/F) There are 9 ISS body regions? - correct answer. F

(T/F) Asphyxia is assigned to the ISS Chest region? - correct answer. F

(T/F) Drowning is assigned to the Head & Neck region? - correct answer. f

Abdomen and Pelvic Area - correct answer. Include injury to Lumber spine lesions.

External - correct answer. Injuries that include lacerations, contusions, abrasions,
hypothermia, electrical injury, whole body injury and burns are assigned to what region?

1-75 - correct answer. The ISS score ranges from what to what?

(T/F) An ISS of 75 can be derived in 2 ways: one AIS .5 injury in each of three body
regions or a single AIS .6 injury. - correct answer. T

Should patients with a AIS .9 code be included in research studies? - correct answer.
No

Underestimation of the ISS score - correct answer. Assigning injuries to too few body
regions can result in what?

Overestimation of the ISS Score - correct answer. Assigning injuries to too many ISS
body regions can result in what?

Injury - correct answer. The anatomic lesion resulting from a transfer of energy rather
than a complication or immediate sequelae is what?

Blunt, Penetration, Burns & Selected other Trauma - correct answer. The AIS includes
injuries from the what mechanisms?

(T/F) The AIS sometime permits the coding of immediate sequelae, but withing strictly
defined rules? - correct answer. T

(T/F) You can code suspected, possible or rule out diagnosis? - correct answer. F

(T/F) Clinical diagnosis alone are not codable for certain injuries. - correct answer. T

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