CAISS 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2023

3 portions of the temporal bone - squamous (vault) mastoid (base) petrous (base) The lamina papyracea is part of the _______________. - medial wall of the orbit The iris, choroid, and ciliary body belong to the ____________. - Uvea (part of the eye) The salivary gland includes what 3 additional glands? - parotid submandibular sublingual If vessel injury is described only as "dissection" and there is no disruption, code to _______________. - intimal tear, no disruption "Scattered" lung contusions or lacerations should be coded as _____________. - unilateral or bilateral NFS Cecum injuries are included with __________ codes. - colon Acromion fractures are coded as _____________. - scapula fracture NFS Malgaigne's fracture is what type of injury? - pelvic, vertical shear (complete disruption of pelvic ring) For hypothermia, do you round up? or down? when coding - neither, code to whole number only Is Asphyxia a codable sequela? - Yes "blood along tentorium" codes to __________. - cerebrum Code soft palate perforation as ____________. - laceration Code hard palate perforation as ____________. - fracture If palate is not specified as soft or hard, code as _____________. - fracture If carotid artery injury is not specified, what artery should it be coded to? - common carotid If jugular vein injury is not specified, what vein should it be coded to? - internal jugular What joint is rotator cuff injury assigned to? - glenohumeral joint (shoulder) T/F hanging/drowning deaths with medical examiner's diagnosis counts as "cardiac arrest documented by medical personnel" - True Pseudoaneurysm is coded as _____________. - minor artery laceration What type of injury is a Morel Lavallee Lesion? - degloving of an extremity or internal shearing Pterygoid plates are part of the ____________ bone and coded to the ______________ if injured in isolation. - sphenoid, skull base T/F If pterygoid plates are part of a Lefort fracture, they are not coded additionally as a skull base fracture. - True T/F A spinal cord injury (compression, epidural, or subdural) with associated fracture but NO deficit is coded as cord injury OR fracture, not both. - TRUE What anatomical spine structure is pars interarticularis coded to? - pedicle Persistent air leak (.4) in the thorax lasts for more than ______ hours, and is more severe than simple pneumothorax. - 48 Intracardiac septum may also be identified as ____________. - intraventricular septum Abdominal serosal tear is coded as a ________________. - partial thickness injury "Hip fracture" with no other description is coded as ___________. - proximal femur fracture (.3) "slipped epiphysis" in children is coded as __________. - femur neck fracture (.3) When can you use the Caustic injury NFS (.9) - only when specific location is not known What is retrobulbar hemorrhage coded as? - eye, NFS (.1)