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Differentiate Cardioversion, Defibrillation

Published on Fri Mar 08, 2019

Question: Our ED physician used cardioversion/defibrillation on a patient in cardiac arrest. Which code describes this service? Codify Subscriber Answer: The answer depends on which service was performed, since cardioversion is not the same thing as defibrillation. During defibrillation, electric shock is used to restart or normalize heart rhythms. Cardioversion, on the other hand, is the conversion of one cardiac rhythm to another or [...]
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