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Boxed & Bold Text - Answer Represent AIS coding rules and conventions and contain directives to assist in the appropriate use of specific descriptions. Brackets - Answer Denote inclusive or exclusive information. Parentheseses - Answer Include synonyms or occasionally, non-clinical terms and provide a definition for the injury description. Semicolons - Answer Separate injury descriptors that are comparable in severity. Bold Type - Answer Identifies an anatomical structure Italics ...

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 in...

How do you code GSW with missile lodged in the bone? - Answer As an Open Fx (Clarification document) How do you code bony fractures that are the result of a GSW? - Answer Open Fx How do you code bone contusions? - Answer They are not codeable What are some anatomical landmarks for amputation of the upper extremity? - Answer 1. Between shoulder and hand NFS [does not apply to hands, thumbs, fingers] 2. At the shoulder 3. at or above elbow but below shoulder 4. below elbow at or above ...

Code penetrating injury to a specific anatomical structure (eg cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem) if this information is known. If specific site is not known or if more than one structure is injured then code to penetrating injury under whole area. What is an important exception to this? - Answer Penetrating injury to the brain stem is an AIS 6 injury and should be coded under brain stem even if two regions of the brain are involved. What body region is supratentorial coded to? - Answer Cerebr...

What are the four categories to penetrating injury? - Answer 1. Penetrating injury not further specified 2. Superficial; minor; into the peritoneum but not involving underlying structures. 3. Tissue loss greater than 100 cm² 4. With blood loss greater than 20% by volume" In what section of the chapter do you find a rectus abdominous rupture nfs? - Answer Under the whole area Is there a code for torso transaction? - Answer Yes, it is under the whole area section What is an example of a...

What is included in the AIS External chapter? - Answer External soft tissue injuries, burns and other traumtic events like electrical injury, frostbite and hypothermia. What descriptors are in the AIS external chapter? - Answer Abrasion Contusion Laceration Avulsion Degloving Penetrating Burn Define Abrasion - Answer A rubbed or scraped area on the skin or mucous membrane caused by contact with a rough surface or object.

Is there a code for cervical spine injuries without further substantiation or no autopsy confirmation of specific injuries? - Answer Yes, but it has a severity of 9 How do you code co-existing injuries to the spinal cord and the vertebral column? - Answer They are coded as a single entry and only have one AIS code. If a cord injury is continuous which level is coded? - Answer Only the highest. If the cord is injured in more than one area, and the injuries are separate and distinct, then al...

Branches of vessels - Answer these are not coded unless they are named or listed with a specific descriptor Boxed and Bold Text - Answer Represent AIS coding rules and conventions Brackets - Answer Denote inclusive or exclusive information Semicolons - Answer Separate injury descriptors that are comparable in severity Bold Type - Answer Identifies anatomical structure Supratentorial - Answer Described as blood along the tentorium and is coded to the Cerebrum Temporal Bone - Ans...

AIS Parentheses ( ) tell a coder what? - Answer contain a synonym or definition What does the AIS single digit severity number indicate? - Answer The "average patient" who sustains the coded injury as their only injury Is death a part of the severity code? - Answer No Italics means what in the AIS book? - Answer This wording format is used for proper names, anatomical structures and OIS grades. Semicolon ; means what in the AIS book? - Answer This formatting separates injuries that...

What does AIS define as part of the Chest? - Answer Skin (excluding shoulder girdle & sternoclavicular region), Trachea & Esophagus below the sternal notch, bronchus, diaphragm, heart, lungs, rib cage, sternum, Thorcic vessels(including thoracic aorta & vena cava), Thoracic Spine What does ISS consider as part of the Chest? - Answer AIS Thorax Chapter, Thoracic Spine, Drowning How is an "Open" chest wound defined? - Answer Defined as a sucking chest wound What region of the chest fill...