Q: We have a patient admitted with a history of CHF and ESRD who was admitted with volume overload due to AKI and dialysis noncompliance. The AKI and volume overload resolved with hemodialysis treatment. How should we report this in ICD...Read More »
Q:Can you provide some tips on how to educate physicians and encourage them to respond to your queries? My hospital is a teaching facility and the system is set up so that nurses can’t even call an attending directly. In most...Read More »
Q: If the patient reports an elevated temperature at home, can we use that towards reporting systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria or does the elevated temperature have to be taken at the hospital?Read More »
Q:We recently had a patient who met criteria for sepsis, but they also presented with a narcotic overdose. Would we be able to code the sepsis based on the criteria present or should we query?Read More »
