CAISS Exam - Boxed & Bold Text - Answer Represent AIS c...

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Boxed & Bold Text - Answer Represent AIS coding rules and conventions and contain directives to assist in the appropriate use of specific descriptions.

Brackets - Answer Denote inclusive or exclusive information.

Parentheseses - Answer Include synonyms or occasionally, non-clinical terms and provide a definition for the injury description.

Semicolons - Answer Separate injury descriptors that are comparable in severity.

Bold Type - Answer Identifies an anatomical structure

Italics - Answer Are used for proper-named anatomical structures or injuries, and for OIS grades.

AIS .1 - Answer Minor

AIS .2 - Answer Moderate

AIS .3 - Answer Serious

AIS .4 - Answer Severe

AIS .5 - Answer Critical

AIS .6 - Answer Maximum

Range of AIS severity codes - Answer 1-6

Is "DEATH" part of the AIS severity scale? - Answer No 1 / 4

Does a linear relationship exist between AIS severity codes? - Answer No

(T/F) Injuries within the same code may not be strictly compatible. - Answer T

AIS .9 - Answer Unknown

(T/F) The AIS single digit severity number indicates the relative severity of injury in an "average person" who sustains the coded injury as his only injury. - Answer T

Average Patient - Answer Adult 25-40 years of age Free of pre-existing conditions Free of treatment complications Receiving timely, appropriate care for the injury

Pre-dot Code - Answer 6 digits to the left of decimal point

AIS Severity Number - Answer A single digit to the right of the decimal point.

Body Region - Answer The first number in the pre-dot code stands for?

Type of Anatomic Structure - Answer The second number in the pre-dot code stands for?

Specific Anatomic Structure - Answer The third & fourth numbers in the pre- dot code stands for?

Level of injury within the specific body region and anatomic structure - Answer The fifth & sixth numbers in the pre-dot code stands for?

(T/F) AIS assesses the severity of single injuries. - Answer T

(T/F) The ISS is the sum of the squares of the highest AIS in each of the (3) most severity injured ISS body regions. - Answer T

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There are how many ISS body regions? - Answer 6

ISS Body Regions - Answer Head & Neck Face Chest Abdominal & Pelvic Contents Extremities & Pelvic Girdle External

Head & Neck - Answer Include injury to the brain, skull, cervical spine or neck organs.

(T/F) Asphyxia is assigned to the ISS Head region? - Answer T

Face - Answer Include injury to mouth, ears, eyes, nose and facial bones.

Chest - Answer Include injury to abdominal and pelvic contents, including all lesions to internal organs in the respective cavities and injuries to diaphragm, rib cage and thoracic spine.

(T/F) Drowning is assigned to the Chest region? - Answer T

(T/F) The ISS is the sum of the squares of the highest AIS in each of the (5) most severity injured ISS body regions. - Answer F

(T/F) There are 9 ISS body regions? - Answer F

(T/F) Asphyxia is assigned to the ISS Chest region? - Answer F

(T/F) Drowning is assigned to the Head & Neck region? - Answer f

Abdomen and Pelvic Area - Answer Include injury to Lumber spine lesions.

External - Answer Injuries that include lacerations, contusions, abrasions, hypothermia, electrical injury, whole body injury and burns are assigned to what region? 3 / 4

1-75 - Answer The ISS score ranges from what to what?

(T/F) An ISS of 75 can be derived in 2 ways: one AIS .5 injury in each of three body regions or a single AIS .6 injury. - Answer T

Should patients with a AIS .9 code be included in research studies? - Answer No

Underestimation of the ISS score - Answer Assigning injuries to too few body regions can result in what?

Overestimation of the ISS Score - Answer Assigning injuries to too many ISS body regions can result in what?

Injury - Answer The anatomic lesion resulting from a transfer of energy rather than a complication or immediate sequelae is what?

Blunt, Penetration, Burns & Selected other Trauma - Answer The AIS includes injuries from the what mechanisms?

(T/F) The AIS sometime permits the coding of immediate sequelae, but withing strictly defined rules? - Answer T

(T/F) You can code suspected, possible or rule out diagnosis? - Answer F

(T/F) Clinical diagnosis alone are not codable for certain injuries. - Answer T

(T/F) In order to code clinical diagnosis, there must be back-up with a CT, MRI or autopsy documentation. - Answer T

(T/F) Cranial Nerve Injuries or Basilar Skull Fractures are an exception to coding clinical diagnosis. - Answer T

Basilar Skull Fracture - Answer Physical signs of raccoon eyes, Battle signs, CSF rhinorrhea, CSF otorrhea and Hemotympanum are indications of what?

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