CAISS Exam Study Guide with Verified
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Boxed & Bold Text - Answer️️ -Represent AIS coding rules and conventions and
contain directives to assist in the appropriate use of specific descriptions.
Brackets - Answer️️ -Denote inclusive or exclusive information.
Parentheseses - Answ...
(T/F) Asphyxia is assigned to the ISS Chest region? - Answer✔️✔️-F
(T/F) Drowning is assigned to the Head & Neck region? - Answer✔️✔️-f
Abdomen and Pelvic Area - Answer✔️✔️-Include injury to Lumber spine lesions.
External - Answer✔️✔️-Injuries that include lacerations, contusions, abrasions,
hypothermia, electrical injury, whole body injury and burns are assigned to what region?
1-75 - 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. - Answer✔️✔️-T
Should patients with a AIS .9 code be included in research studies? - Answer✔️✔️-No
Underestimation of the ISS score - Answer✔️✔️-Assigning injuries to too few body
regions can result in what?
Overestimation of the ISS Score - Answer✔️✔️-Assigning injuries to too many ISS body
regions can result in what?
Injury - 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 - 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? - Answer✔️✔️-T
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