CAISS EXTREMITIES AND PELVIC GIRDLE EXAM SCRIPT
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false. A vascular injury in upper extremity not further specified
has a severity of 9""
✔✔1. Axillary artery, axillary vein,
2. Brachial artery, brachial vein,
3. Other named arteries such as Radial or ulnar
4. Other named veins such as cephalic or basilic. - ✔✔Name vessels specifically listed
in the upper extremity chapter
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false. In the vessel section, laceration, perforation or puncture
are coded the same
✔✔Superficial; incomplete circumferential involvement; blood loss </= 20% by volume. -
✔✔Describe a minor laceration to a vessel
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false in the vessel section in the upper extremity chapter, major
injury examples are: rupture or transection or segmental loss
✔✔20% - ✔✔One example of a major brachial artery injury is a laceration with blood
loss greater than______ percent
✔✔Code as contusion to the specific nerve - ✔✔How do you code a diagnosis of nerve
palsy or neurapraxia?
✔✔Digital, median, radial and ulnar - ✔✔What nerves are named in the nerves section
for the upper extremity?
✔✔rupture; tear; avulsion - ✔✔Name injuries to the joint capsule
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false - a muscle contusion is coded the same as a muscle strain.
✔✔Tendon tear; avulsion is the main category.
The first subcategory is multiple tendons in hand
The second subcategory is multiple tendons other than hand. - ✔✔Name the two coding
subcategories of injuries to tendons in the upper extremity.
✔✔It is the acromioclavicular joint and it is in the shoulder region. It occurs when the
clavicle separates from the scapula - ✔✔What is the AC joint and where is it located?
✔✔1. the a/c or acromioclavicular joint
2. the glenohumeral joint - ✔✔Name two joints in the shoulder region
, ✔✔It is a ball and socket joint between the glenoid of the scapula and the proximal
humerus. It is the shoulder joint - ✔✔What is the glenohumeral joint?
✔✔The wrist - ✔✔What is another name for the carpal joint?
✔✔Dislocation - ✔✔What is a synonym for separation?
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false - is the sternoclavicular joint in the upper extremities
chapter?
✔✔Sprain, subluxation, dislocation - ✔✔Name three injuries to joints in the upper
extremity
✔✔It can only be accepted in patients who die before any radiology is done and no
autopsy is performed. In such cases, the least severe AIS code should be assigned. For
example forearm fracture not further specified if neither ulna nor radius is named.
Alternatively, if known, one can code to radius fracture not further specified or ulna
fracture not further specified - ✔✔When can you accept a clinical diagnosis of a fracture
in the upper extremities?
✔✔The distal - ✔✔What is the lateral end of the clavicle?
✔✔Not further specified,
body,
neck with or without body,
glenoid with or without neck or body - ✔✔Name descriptors/anatomical points of the
scapula that have different ISS codes.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false- fracture to the head or anatomical neck of the proximal
humerus is coded as an articular fracture
✔✔Extra-articular. A capitular fracture of the distal humerus is partial articular. And a T-
shaped, Y-shaped or T condylar fracture is coded as a complete articular - ✔✔Is a
supracondylar fracture of the humerus extra-articular, partial articular, or complete
articular?
✔✔A wedge fracture - ✔✔What is synonymous with butterfly fragments?
✔✔It is a partial articular fracture of the distal radius - ✔✔What is a Colles fracture?
✔✔It is a complete articular fracture of the distal radius - ✔✔What is a Barton fracture?
✔✔Code to the proximal ulna - ✔✔How do you code a fracture to the olecranon?
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false. A vascular injury in upper extremity not further specified
has a severity of 9""
✔✔1. Axillary artery, axillary vein,
2. Brachial artery, brachial vein,
3. Other named arteries such as Radial or ulnar
4. Other named veins such as cephalic or basilic. - ✔✔Name vessels specifically listed
in the upper extremity chapter
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false. In the vessel section, laceration, perforation or puncture
are coded the same
✔✔Superficial; incomplete circumferential involvement; blood loss </= 20% by volume. -
✔✔Describe a minor laceration to a vessel
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false in the vessel section in the upper extremity chapter, major
injury examples are: rupture or transection or segmental loss
✔✔20% - ✔✔One example of a major brachial artery injury is a laceration with blood
loss greater than______ percent
✔✔Code as contusion to the specific nerve - ✔✔How do you code a diagnosis of nerve
palsy or neurapraxia?
✔✔Digital, median, radial and ulnar - ✔✔What nerves are named in the nerves section
for the upper extremity?
✔✔rupture; tear; avulsion - ✔✔Name injuries to the joint capsule
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false - a muscle contusion is coded the same as a muscle strain.
✔✔Tendon tear; avulsion is the main category.
The first subcategory is multiple tendons in hand
The second subcategory is multiple tendons other than hand. - ✔✔Name the two coding
subcategories of injuries to tendons in the upper extremity.
✔✔It is the acromioclavicular joint and it is in the shoulder region. It occurs when the
clavicle separates from the scapula - ✔✔What is the AC joint and where is it located?
✔✔1. the a/c or acromioclavicular joint
2. the glenohumeral joint - ✔✔Name two joints in the shoulder region
, ✔✔It is a ball and socket joint between the glenoid of the scapula and the proximal
humerus. It is the shoulder joint - ✔✔What is the glenohumeral joint?
✔✔The wrist - ✔✔What is another name for the carpal joint?
✔✔Dislocation - ✔✔What is a synonym for separation?
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false - is the sternoclavicular joint in the upper extremities
chapter?
✔✔Sprain, subluxation, dislocation - ✔✔Name three injuries to joints in the upper
extremity
✔✔It can only be accepted in patients who die before any radiology is done and no
autopsy is performed. In such cases, the least severe AIS code should be assigned. For
example forearm fracture not further specified if neither ulna nor radius is named.
Alternatively, if known, one can code to radius fracture not further specified or ulna
fracture not further specified - ✔✔When can you accept a clinical diagnosis of a fracture
in the upper extremities?
✔✔The distal - ✔✔What is the lateral end of the clavicle?
✔✔Not further specified,
body,
neck with or without body,
glenoid with or without neck or body - ✔✔Name descriptors/anatomical points of the
scapula that have different ISS codes.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔True or false- fracture to the head or anatomical neck of the proximal
humerus is coded as an articular fracture
✔✔Extra-articular. A capitular fracture of the distal humerus is partial articular. And a T-
shaped, Y-shaped or T condylar fracture is coded as a complete articular - ✔✔Is a
supracondylar fracture of the humerus extra-articular, partial articular, or complete
articular?
✔✔A wedge fracture - ✔✔What is synonymous with butterfly fragments?
✔✔It is a partial articular fracture of the distal radius - ✔✔What is a Colles fracture?
✔✔It is a complete articular fracture of the distal radius - ✔✔What is a Barton fracture?
✔✔Code to the proximal ulna - ✔✔How do you code a fracture to the olecranon?
