Anesthesia Coding Alert

CMS defines these measures as follows:

Measure 193: Perioperative Temperature Management: "Percentage of patients, regardless of age, undergoing surgical or therapeutic procedures under general or neuraxial anesthesia of 60 minutes duration or longer, except patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass, for whom either active warming was used intraoperatively for the purpose of maintaining normothermia, OR at least one body temperature equal to or greater than 36 degrees Centigrade (or 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded within the 30 minutes immediately before or the 15 minutes immediately after anesthesia end time."

Measure 76: Prevention of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections (CRBSI) -- Central Venous Catheter Insertion Protocol.