Vocabulary

Question 0

Manifestation

Answer 0

Demonstration of sign, symptom or alteration

Question 1

Etiology

Answer 1

Cause

Question 2

What is the Laymans term for pressure ulcers?

Answer 2

Bedsores

Question 3

What is the postpartum period?

Answer 3

Begins immediately after delivery through six weeks after delivery

Question 4

What is the perinatal period?

Answer 4

Before birth through the 28th day following birth

Question 5

What is a sequel?

Answer 5

A chronic condition that is a complication of an acute condition that begins during that acute condition.

Question 6

What is a closed reduction?

Answer 6

Manipulation of the bone fragments without surgical exposure

Question 7

What is an open reduction?

Answer 7

Where tissue is dissected and fracture fragments are exposed surgically

Question 8

What is a pathological fracture?

Answer 8

A fracture caused by disease rather than trauma also known as a spontaneous

Question 9

Preclude

Answer 9

Prevent from happening, make impossible

Question 10

What is sepsis?

Answer 10

Whole body inflammation caused by an infection

Question 11

What is systemic inflammatory response syndrome? (SIRS)

Answer 11

An inflammatory state affecting the whole body frequently a response of the Immune system to an infection it is related to sepsis.

Question 12

How would you code sepsis when it is present on admission meets the definition of a principal diagnosis?

Answer 12

The systemic infection code 1st (e.g 038.. Or 112.5)followed by 995.91 sepsis or 995.92 severe sepsis.

995.9 can never be the principal diagnosis

Question 13

Define septic shock:

Answer 13

Sepsis with hypotension

Question 14

When inpatient coding, what is a principal procedure according to UHDDS?

Answer 14

One performed for definitive treatment (not exploratory or diagnostic) or that was necessary to care for a complication.

Question 15

What is a significant procedure according to UHDDS?

Answer 15

One that is surgical in nature, here is an aesthetic risk, carries a procedural risk, or require specialized training.

Question 16

What is the UHDDS definition of a complication?

Answer 16

I conditioner rising during hospitalization which increases the patients length of stay by one day and 75% of cases

Question 17

What is that UHDDS definition of comorbidity?

Answer 17

Condition present on admission in addition to the principal diagnosis which increases the patients length of stay by one day and 75% of cases

Question 18

What is UHDDS definition of present on admission or POA?

Answer 18

All conditions that coexist at the time of admission develop subsequently or affect the treatment received and or the links of stay.

Question 19

What is subjective?

Answer 19

One person’s opinion, biased

Question 20

What is objective?

Answer 20

Unbiased, considers all views

Question 21

What is pathophysiology?

Answer 21

The disorder to physiological processes associated with disease or injury

Question 22

What is necrosis?

Answer 22

The stage of dying a form of cell injury that resulted in premature death of cells

Question 23

What is the most common type of skin cancer?

Answer 23

Basal cell carcinoma

Question 24

What is a pneumothorax?

Answer 24

Collection of air or gas in the pleural space that separates the lungs from the chest wall

Question 25

What is the stape?

Answer 25

The stapes is a bone in the middle ear of humans and other mammals which is involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear.

Question 26

Arthrodesis

Answer 26

Surgical fixation