HIM 3208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Disorganized Schizophrenia, Anemia, Seat Belt

• School: Temple University
• Department: Health Information Management
• Course: HIM 3208
• Professor: Foley

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If coding guidelines or coding principles dictate selection of a principal diagnosis or procedure, identify your selection for principal by underlying the code. Do not assign external cause codes (v, w, x and y codes: 10 year old fell off playground equipment while climbing on the jungle gym apparatus at his elementary school this morning. Patient found to have comminuted displaced supracondylar left elbow fracture. Closed reduction with percutaneous insertion of internal fixation device of left elbow joint performed. S42. 422, 0rsmx4z: a 26-year-old previously healthy female was referred to emergency room with presentation after a traffic accident. She was in the back seat of the car fastened with seat belt which was hit by another car. Patient found to have moderate laceration of right kidney. Open suture repair of laceration of right kidney performed. S37. 051, 0tq30zz: 28 year old laborer sustained burn during a gas explosion at work on a building construction site.