Reader Questions:
Clearly Document 'Emergency' to Support Submitting 31500
Published on Wed Aug 12, 2020
Question: A patient was taken to the OR for an “elective emergent intubation” under general anesthesia. The patient had a mass and the surgeon thought they might run into trouble and need to perform an emergency tracheostomy. The anesthesiologist says this situation “was like a main OR case ... he was supervising the CRNA. CRNA is the one that did [...]