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Look at Low-level E/M When Patient Expires Before Surgery

Published on Mon Mar 08, 2021

Question: A patient with a stab wound to the right chest wall (with hemopneumothorax) was taken to the OR and the CRNA assumed care (start time 0227). The planned procedure was a thoracotomy, but within five minutes the patient coded and expired a short time later (end time 0252). General anesthesia was never initiated, and the surgeon never made an [...]
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