ROOT OPERATIONS Flashcards
EXCISION
DEFINITION: Cutting out or off, without replacement, a portion of a body part
EXPLANATION: The qualifier DIAGNOSTIC is used to identify excision procedures that are biopsies
***Bone Marrow & Endometrial Biopsies are coded to EXTRACTION with the qualifier DIAGNOSTIC
EXAMPLES: Partial nephrectomy, liver biopsy, breast lumpectomy, breast reduction for medical reasons (for cosmetic reasons is ALTERATION), Excisional Debridement (non-Excisional Debridement is EXTRACTION)
ALTERATION
Modifying the natural anatomic structure of a body part without affecting the function of the body part
BYPASS
DEFINITION: Altering the route of passage of the contents of a tubular body part
EXPLANATION: Rerouting content of a body part to a downstream area of the normal route, to a similar route and body part, or to an abnormal route and dissimilar body part. Includes one or mor asastomoses, with or without the uses of a device. Bypass procedures are coded by identifying the body part bypassed “from” and the body part bypassed “to”. The 4th character body part specifies the body part bypassed from and the qualifier specifies the body part to.
EXAMLPLES: Coronary bypass graft (CABG), Colostomy formation
CHANGE
DEFINITION: Taking out or off a device from a body part and putting back an identical or similar device in or on the same body part without cutting or puncturing the skin or mucous membrane. Represents only those procedures where a similar device is exchanged without making a new incision or puncture.
EXPLANATION: All Change procedures are coded using the approach External
EXAMPLES: Urinary catheter change, gastrostomy tube change, drainage tube change
CONTROL
DEFINITION: Stopping, or attempting to stop, post-procedural bleeding
EXPLANATION: The site of the bleeding is coded as an anatomical region and not to a specific body part. Control is used to represent a small range of procedures performed to treat post-procedural bleeding. If any of the following procedures. Are required to stop the bleeding, Control so NOT coded separately: 🔴 Bypass 🔴 Detachment 🔴 Excision 🔴 Extraction 🔴 Reposition 🔴 Replacement 🔴 Resection if they do any of these procedures you can't code control!
EXAMPLES: Control of post-prostatectomy hemorrhage, control of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage. Control includes irrigation or evacuation of hematoma done at the operative site. Both irrigation and evacuation may be necessary to clear the operative field and effectively stop the bleeding.
CREATION
Making a new genital structure that does not take over the function of a body part
DESTRUCTION
DEFINITION: Physical eradication of all or a portion of a body part by the direct use of energy, force, or destructive agent
EXPLANATION: None of the body part is physically taken out
EXAMPLES: Fulguration of rectal polyp, cautery of skin lesion, Fulguration of endometrium
DETACHMENT
DEFINITION: Cutting off all or a portion of the upper or lower extremities
EXPLANATION: The body part value is the site of the detachment, with a qualifier, if applicable, to further specify the level where the extremity was detached
EXAMPLE: Below-knee amputation, disarticulation of shoulder, amputation above elbow
DILATION
DEFINITION: Expanding an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part
EXPLANATION: The orifice can be a natural or an artificially created oriffice. Accomplished by stretching a tubular body part using intraluminal pressure or by cutting part of the office or wall of the tubular body part. A device placed to maintain the new diameter is an integral part of dilation procedure, and is coded to the 6th character device value in the value in the dilation procedure code.
EXAMPLES: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), laryngeal stenosis dilation, dilation common bile duct.
DIVISION
DEFINITION: Cutting into a body part without draining fluids and/or gases from the body part in order to separate or transect a body part
EXPLANATION: All or a portion of the body part is separated into two or more portions. If the sole objective of the procedure is separating or transecting a body part, the root operation is division, ie., severing a nerve root to relieve pain
EXAMPLES: Spinal cordotomy, osteotomy, neurotomy, episiotomy
DRAINAGE
DEFINITION: Taking or letting out fluids and/or gases from a body part
EXPLANATION: The qualifier DIAGNOSTIC is used to identify drainage procedures that are biopsies
EXAMPLES: Thoracentesis, Incison & Drainage, Aspiration, Lumbar puncture
EXTIRPATION
DEFINITION: Taking or cutting out solid matter from a body part
EXPLANATION: The solid matter may be an abnormal byproduct of a biological function or a foreign body; it may be imbedded in a body part, or in the lumen of a tubular body part. The solid matter may or may not have been previously broken into pieces.
EXAMPLES: Thrombectomy, endarterectomy, choledocholithotomy, excision foreign body. The objective of the procedure is to remove solid material such as a foreign body, thrombus, or calculus from the body part.
***ESWL can be either an EXTIRPATION or FRAGMENTATION
EXTRACTION
DEFINITION: Pulling or stripping out or off all or a portion of a body part by the use of force
EXPLANATION: The qualifier DIAGNOSTIC is used to identify extraction procedures that are biopsies
EXAMPLES: Dilation and Curettage, vein stripping, phacoemulsification WITHOUT IOL implant (phacoemulsification with IOL implant is REPLACEMENT), non-excisional debridement (excisional debridement is EXCISION), liposuction for medical reasons (liposuction for cosmetic reasons is ALTERATION), removal of a thumbnail
FRAGMENTATION
DEFINITION: Breaking solid matter in a body part into pieces
EXPLANATION: The physical force (ie., manual ultrasonic) applied directly or indirectly is used to break the solid matter into pieces. The solid matter my be an abnormal byproduct of a biological function or a foreign body. The pieces of solid matter are not taken out.
EXAMPLES: Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy, transurethral lithotripsy. Fragmentation is coded for procedures to break up, but not remove solid material such as calculus or foreign body.
***ESWL can be either an EXTIRPATION or FRAGMENTATION
FUSION
Joining together portions of an articular body part rendering the articular body part immobile