revision total hip arthroplastytotal joint replacementBackground ICD-10 was adopted by the United States on October 1st, 2015 and expanded coding from 3,800 codes with ICD-9-PCS to 73,000. The increase in number of codes was designed to create more accurate representations of procedures like ...
status, but is not in itself a current illness or injury. In this circumstance, the V code should be used only as a supplementary code and should not be the one selected for use in primary, single cause tabulations. Examples of these circumstances are a personal history of ...
An articulating spacer loaded with antibiotics was placed in the hip joint after removing the infected prosthesis. What root operation is used for the placement of the articulating spacer? Insertion The patient had a bilateral knee replacement, unicompartmental on the metal side, placed with cement....
The accuracy of an ICD-10-PCS code relative to the surgical record was determined by postoperative radiograph and chart review, and cross-referencing with institution-level coding published by the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) was also performed.#A total of 552 cemented THA cases were...
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