CAISS – Thorax exam with 100% verified answers

CAISS – Thorax exam with 100% verified answers What does AIS define as part of the Chest? - Correct Answers Skin (excluding shoulder girdle & sternoclavicular region), Trachea & Esophagus below the sternal notch, bronchus, diaphragm, heart, lungs, rib cage, sternum, Thorcic vessels(including thoracic aorta & vena cava), Thoracic Spine What does ISS consider as part of the Chest? - Correct Answers AIS Thorax Chapter, Thoracic Spine, Drowning How is an "Open" chest wound defined? - Correct Answers Defined as a sucking chest wound What region of the chest fills partly or complete with air, blood or mixture for a pneumothorax, hemothorax, or hemopneumothorax? - Correct Answers Intrapleural space. What does the presence of air in the intrapleural space indicate? - Correct Answers Tears in the airway or chest wall, pneumothorax What does the presence of blood in the intrapleural space indicate? - Correct Answers Torn blood vessels, hemothorax If a patient has flail and non-flail ribs on the right side how would you code? - Correct Answers Unilateral flail chest and rib fractures without flail are coded only as flail. How would you code rib fractures if the patient had flail on the right and no flail on the left? - Correct Answers Code as two separate injuries Define flail chest. - Correct Answers Three or more adjacent ribs each fractured in two or more places Is a costal cartilage fracture considered a rib fracture? - Correct Answers Yes What is necessary to code lung contusion? - Correct Answers History of trauma & verified by imaging or autopsy. Can you code both a lung contusion and lung laceration? - Correct Answers Yes. Each are considered independent injuries in the chest If chest trauma is only diagnosised by it's sequela with no specific information how would you code? - Correct Answers Thoracic injury NFS What sequela's in the chest can be coded? - Correct Answers Air Embolus and Tamponade When are branches of vessels coded? - Correct Answers When the primary vessel is named. How should an "incomplete transaction" of a vessel be coded? - Correct Answers Incomplete circumferential involvement What are the named arteries in the Thoracic region? - Correct Answers Thoracic Aorta, Brachiocephalic, Pulmonary, Coronary, Subclavian