CAISS CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
PRACTICE PACK
●● Rupture
Answer: to burst or break open (usually a body part) resulting in a hole
with stellate edges
●● Neurologic Deficit
Answer: loss or deficit in function of the nervous system that was NOT
present pre injury and lasts more than a few minutes.
●● Major (complex) Laceration
Answer: tissues torn from a blunt force. Wound goes in to the
subcutaneous and possibly muscle causing jagged edges usually requires
a layered closure and or extensive cleaning
●● Rule for Coding Branches of Vessels
Answer: Branches of vessels are not coded unless the branch has a
specific anatomical name or is included in a vessel descriptor. The
branch MUST be a direct tributary of that vessel otherwise select "other
named arteries" or "veins"
,●● GSW gun shot wound where ballistic lodges in the bone or causes a
fracture should be considered Open or Closed Fracture?
Answer: OPEN
●● Retroclival Hematoma Codeable in AIS?
Answer: No because it may or may not be caused by trauma
●● Can Vasospasm be coded in AIS?
Answer: No because it is the result of an injury and not the INJURY
ITSELF
●● How should a Hemorrhagic Contusion or Contusional Hematoma be
coded?
Answer: Code as a CONTUSION since hemorrhage describes a
contusion essentially.
●● What should determine whether you code Brain Edema or Brain
Swelling?
Answer: Use the terminology used by the practitioner.
●● Any penetrating injury to the skull that involves teh brain stem
should be coded as WHAT no matter what other regions involve the
brain?
Answer: Brain Stem Penetrating Injury
, ●● Coding LOC loss of consciousness Rule
Answer: LOC must be documented by a doctor or physician extender it
may be coded even if concussion is not mentioned.
●● Iris injury should be coded under what part of the eye?
Answer: UVEA
●● Multiple Mandible Fractures should be coded how many times?
Answer: Only once, code to the largest mass area involved.
●● Lamina papyracea is the same as or part of what?
Answer: Medial wall of the ORBIT
●● Zygomatic Complex Fractures only get the additonal COMPLEX
classification if....
Answer: there is a fracture line going through the a main fragment not
just minor comminution
●● Inhalation injury codes include burns to what organs?
Answer: Mouth, Nose, Lungs. So don't code mouth or pharynx
separately.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
PRACTICE PACK
●● Rupture
Answer: to burst or break open (usually a body part) resulting in a hole
with stellate edges
●● Neurologic Deficit
Answer: loss or deficit in function of the nervous system that was NOT
present pre injury and lasts more than a few minutes.
●● Major (complex) Laceration
Answer: tissues torn from a blunt force. Wound goes in to the
subcutaneous and possibly muscle causing jagged edges usually requires
a layered closure and or extensive cleaning
●● Rule for Coding Branches of Vessels
Answer: Branches of vessels are not coded unless the branch has a
specific anatomical name or is included in a vessel descriptor. The
branch MUST be a direct tributary of that vessel otherwise select "other
named arteries" or "veins"
,●● GSW gun shot wound where ballistic lodges in the bone or causes a
fracture should be considered Open or Closed Fracture?
Answer: OPEN
●● Retroclival Hematoma Codeable in AIS?
Answer: No because it may or may not be caused by trauma
●● Can Vasospasm be coded in AIS?
Answer: No because it is the result of an injury and not the INJURY
ITSELF
●● How should a Hemorrhagic Contusion or Contusional Hematoma be
coded?
Answer: Code as a CONTUSION since hemorrhage describes a
contusion essentially.
●● What should determine whether you code Brain Edema or Brain
Swelling?
Answer: Use the terminology used by the practitioner.
●● Any penetrating injury to the skull that involves teh brain stem
should be coded as WHAT no matter what other regions involve the
brain?
Answer: Brain Stem Penetrating Injury
, ●● Coding LOC loss of consciousness Rule
Answer: LOC must be documented by a doctor or physician extender it
may be coded even if concussion is not mentioned.
●● Iris injury should be coded under what part of the eye?
Answer: UVEA
●● Multiple Mandible Fractures should be coded how many times?
Answer: Only once, code to the largest mass area involved.
●● Lamina papyracea is the same as or part of what?
Answer: Medial wall of the ORBIT
●● Zygomatic Complex Fractures only get the additonal COMPLEX
classification if....
Answer: there is a fracture line going through the a main fragment not
just minor comminution
●● Inhalation injury codes include burns to what organs?
Answer: Mouth, Nose, Lungs. So don't code mouth or pharynx
separately.
