CAISS External and Burns Exam with Complete Solutions

CAISS External and Burns Exam with Complete Solutions How do you code in inhalation injury? - ANSWER ️️ Inhalation burns include all airway burns from mouth and nose to lungs. Do not code mouth or pharynx separately; p. 80. How do you code a radiation burn? - ANSWER ️️ Currently, they are not a codeable injury. Note, sunburns are also not a codeable injury. When do you use the external chapter of the AIS dictionary to code soft tissue injuries? - ANSWER ️️ When the specific lesion or lesion site is unknown or if assignment of soft tissue a.k.a. skin injury to a specific body region is not required. However, assigning this injuries to specific body regions where the info is available is strongly encouraged Describe the categories of frostbite codes - ANSWER ️️ Not further specified; First degree or superficial; Deep or full thickness, Under the deep, full thickness category there is a subcategory for multiple body sites What regions are burns coded to? - ANSWER ️️ Burns are assigned to the External Body Region If Burns are only described as combined degrees, for example 15% first and second-degree, how do you code this - ANSWER ️️ Code as combined to the most severe