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S00-S99 - ANSWER ✔✔ Exclude superficial injuries
Falling in S00-S99 - ANSWER ✔✔ Include traumatic injuries
T07 - ANSWER ✔✔ Unspecified multi injuries
T14 - ANSWER ✔✔ Injury of unspecified body region
T20-T28 - ANSWER ✔✔ Burns by body region
T30-T32 - ANSWER ✔✔ Burns by TBSA percentages
T79.A1-T79.A9 - ANSWER ✔✔ Traumatic compartment syndrome
ACS Inclusion - ANSWER ✔✔ Hospital admit, OSH tx by PV or EMS, Death from traumatic
injuries
External Cause Code Hierarchy - ANSWER ✔✔ 1. Child and Adult Abuse
2. Terrorism
3. Cataclysmic Events
4. Transport accidents
5. Cause that causes the most serious injury
ED and Hospital DCS date time - ANSWER ✔✔ Order WRITTEN, not date/time pt left
AIS Severity - ANSWER ✔✔ POST DOT number
1. - ANSWER ✔✔ Minor
2. - ANSWER ✔✔ Moderate
3. - ANSWER ✔✔ Serious
4. - ANSWER ✔✔ Severe
5. - ANSWER ✔✔ Critical
,6. - ANSWER ✔✔ Maximum Unsurvivable
9. - ANSWER ✔✔ Injured but severity unk
ICU LOS - ANSWER ✔✔ any partial or full day in ICU=1 day
Vent days - ANSWER ✔✔ any partial or full day=1 day
TQIP Withdrawal of life supporting treatment - ANSWER ✔✔ DNR is not requirment and is not
the same, excludes stopped CPR, it is a note to limit escalation of treatment- vent support (w/ or
w/o extubation) no further treatment for supporting life
PRBCs - ANSWER ✔✔ packed red blood cells
FFP, LP - ANSWER ✔✔ fresh frozen plasma, liquid plasma
PLTS - ANSWER ✔✔ platelets
Cryo - ANSWER ✔✔ Cryoprecipitate
VTE - ANSWER ✔✔ venous thromboembolism prophylaxis type=blood thinner
Unfractionated Heparin - ANSWER ✔✔ Heparin
What flags will cause a submission file to be rejected - ANSWER ✔✔ Level 1 and Level 2, must
be resolved before submitting data
Cranial nerve I - ANSWER ✔✔ Olfactory-smell
Cranial nerve II - ANSWER ✔✔ Optic - vision
Cranial nerve III - ANSWER ✔✔ oculomotor (pupil function and extra ocular movements)
Cranial nerve IV (4) - ANSWER ✔✔ Trochlear-extraocular movements
Cranial nerve V (5) - ANSWER ✔✔ Trigeminel-some movements of jaw, sensation
Cranial nerve VI (6) - ANSWER ✔✔ Abducens-lateral extraocular movement
Cranial nerve VII (7) - ANSWER ✔✔ Facial (facial expression, taste)
Cranial nerve VIII (8) - ANSWER ✔✔ Acoustic-hearing and balance
, Cranial nerve IX (9) - ANSWER ✔✔ Glossopharyngeal- Pharynx (motor, ear/pharynx/tongue
sensory)
Cranial nerve X (10) - ANSWER ✔✔ Vagus-Palate, larynx, pharynx, involuntary muscles
Cranial nerve XI (11) - ANSWER ✔✔ Accessory-sternocleidomastoid/trapezius muscles
Cranial nerve X11 (12) - ANSWER ✔✔ Hypoglossal-tongue
Neurologic System - ANSWER ✔✔ Brain, Spinal Cord, Nerves
Respiratory System - ANSWER ✔✔ Trachea, Lungs, Diaphram
Circulatory System - ANSWER ✔✔ Heart, Arteries, Veins
Digestive System - ANSWER ✔✔ Esophagus, Stomach, Bowels
Urinary System - ANSWER ✔✔ Kidneys, Ureters, Bladder, Urethera
Musculoskeletal System - ANSWER ✔✔ Bones, Muscles, Tendons
Integumentary System - ANSWER ✔✔ Skin
Bones of Skull - ANSWER ✔✔ Frontal
Parietal x2
Temporal x2
Occipital
Sphenoid
Ethmoid
Types of skull fractures - ANSWER ✔✔ Closed-skin not broken, called simple
Open-skin is broken bone visible, compound
Depressed-bone is pushed into brain cavity
Signs of basilar skull fractures - ANSWER ✔✔ Raccoon Eyes-anterior fossa "front of head"
CSF Leak- middle fossa
Battle Signs bruising behind ears-posterior fossa "back of head"
CSF Leak - ANSWER ✔✔ Clear fluid or mixed with blood from brain draining from ears or
nose; suggestive of skull fx through middle fossa of skull
Diagnostic tools-skull fx/head injuries - ANSWER ✔✔ HCT
MRI