ICD Chpt. 1-10

Question 1

What term is used to describe someone who has diabetes and then becomes pregnant?

Answer 1

Diabetes in Pregnancy

Question 2

What term is used to describe someone who develops diabetes as a result of a pregnancy?

Answer 2

Gestational Diabetes

Question 3

Where would you look in the ICD to begin coding an under dose of insulin?

Answer 3

Table of Drugs and Chemicals

Question 4

How would you sequence the codes for an insulin pump malfunction with overdose of insulin?

Answer 4

1. Mechanical malfunction (reason for encounter)
2. Insulin poisoning (result of mechanical malfunction)
3. Diabetes type (chronic illness relating to immediate issue)

Question 5

True or false? You can assign the code for septic shock, if present on admission and meets the definition of principal diagnosis.

Answer 5

False. The underlying systemic infection should always be assigned as the principal diagnosis followed by the appropriate code for sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock.

Question 6

What is the relation between manifestation and etiology?

Answer 6

Etiology is the cause of the manifestation and cause of disease. Manifestation is the disease process.