Trendale
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Please let me know if I am able to code at least a level 1 consult from the following dictation:
Reason for consultation: code 90
Assessment: I was in the intensive care unit. The patient had arrived from PCU. He went into sudden ventricular tachycardia and lost pulse and blood pressure. I responded along with the nurses and code 90 was called. A defribrillator pad was placed on the patient immediately, and immediately he was defibrillated with 200 joules. He returned to a sinus rhythum with subsequent palpable pulse and blood pressure at that point. He was initially unresponsive but became responsive within 1 minute. Patient had repeated runs of ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained thereafter, for which he was subsequently bolused with IV amiodarone and will be placed on amiodarone infusion and after discussion with cardiology.
Reason for consultation: code 90
Assessment: I was in the intensive care unit. The patient had arrived from PCU. He went into sudden ventricular tachycardia and lost pulse and blood pressure. I responded along with the nurses and code 90 was called. A defribrillator pad was placed on the patient immediately, and immediately he was defibrillated with 200 joules. He returned to a sinus rhythum with subsequent palpable pulse and blood pressure at that point. He was initially unresponsive but became responsive within 1 minute. Patient had repeated runs of ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained thereafter, for which he was subsequently bolused with IV amiodarone and will be placed on amiodarone infusion and after discussion with cardiology.