The diagnosis code for a patient with an inadequate dietary iron intake is diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia, or microcytic anemia.
What is 280.1
100
The exam is Expanded History, Expanded Problem Focused Exam, and Straightforward Decision Making.
What is 99242
100
The most highly organized system in the body
What is The Central Nervous System
100
Acetytcholine - this chemical has a vital effect on both the CNS and PNS.
What is ACh
100
When bacteria have accumulated in the blood, a umber of increasingly serious conditions occur
What is Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock
200
The ICD9 code for: A pediatrician requests a consultation by the hematologist who diagnoses a newborn with Fanconi's Anemia.
What is 284.09
200
The book in the CPT that has a range of CPT codes from 61000-62258.
What is Nervous System
200
An inflammation of the brain
What is Encephalitis
200
The acronym for Peripheral nervous system - It is composed of two systems - what are they?
What is PNS - includes Somatic nervous system and Autonomic nervous system.
200
This happens more often in neonates & pregnant patients.Predisposing factors include diabetes mellitus; cirrhosis; leukopenia, especially that associated with cancer or treatment with cytotoxic drugs.
What is Septic Shock
300
A newborn infant is diagnosed with disseminated intravascular coagulation clotting disorder due to birth trauma. What is the diagnosis code?
Fact: Disseminated intravascular coagulation clotting disorder- This disorder causes blood clotting within vessels and reduces available elements necessary for blood coagulation. It occurs in the perinatal period, which is before birth through the first 28 days after birth.
What is 776.2
300
Within "Surgery of Skull Base" guidelines,what is the correct procedure necessary to obtain adequate exposure to the lesion?
What is Approach Procedure
300
Inflammation of a nerve or nerve trunk
What is Neuritis
300
What is the acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
What is PTSS
300
This is the second level of defense. When microorganisms or toxins enter the body by through the skin or epithelium linings of the respiratory, digestive, or urinary tracts.
What is Inflammation
400
A patient is diagnosed with eosinophilia after a CBC with differential in his physician’s office and is referred to the ENT for allergy testing What is the code?
What is 288.3
400
The use of very high-resolution radiography to achieve the highest precision during a procedure. The lesion is generally mapped using a CT or MRI scan. Then the physician locates the area of interest in the brain from the scans, incises and retracts the scalp and drills a burr hole (access point). What type of biopsy is this?
What is Stereotactical Biopsy
400
A condition that involves the seventh cranial nerve
What is Bells Palsy
400
Intensive Care Unit
What is ICU
400
This part of the brain determines intelligence, personality, interpretation of sensory impulses, motor function, organization and touch sensation.
What is Cerebrum
500
Upon physical examination with a CT of the abdomen, an ED physician discovers a patient had splenomegally. He suspects primary splenic neutropenia, or Doan-Wiseman syndrome after reviewing the blood work and admits the patient. What is the code?
What is 289.53
500
This is done to treat intracranial hypertension often due to severe closed-head injury. It may also be performed if there is a contusion of the brain or hematoma that needs to be removed in order to achieve immediate decompression of hypertension.
What is Craniotomy or Craniectomy
500
A chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system in which immune cells attack the myelin sheath of the nerve cell axons.
Multiple schlerosis
500
Coronary Care Unit
What is CCU
500
A chemical that relays information (stimuli) from a sensory organ receptor to the neurons, which then travel to the spinal cord and then to the appropriate spinal tract, and finally to the brain