Greetings -
I have a situation where the surgeon was about to perform an arthroscopic meniscectomy and a complication arose at the start of the procedure:
DESCRIPTION OF PROCEDURE: The patient received a preoperative block in the preoperative suite for postoperative pain control. He was then taken to the operating room where he was placed supine on the operating table. Once an adequate LMA was achieved, the patient's right knee was prepped and draped in standard sterile...
Coding surgery complication - scalpel breakage/retrieval
I have a situation where the surgeon was about to perform an arthroscopic meniscectomy and a complication arose at the start of the procedure:
DESCRIPTION OF PROCEDURE: The patient received a preoperative block in the preoperative suite for postoperative pain control. He was then taken to the operating room where he was placed supine on the operating table. Once an adequate LMA was achieved, the patient's right knee was prepped and draped in standard sterile...
Coding surgery complication - scalpel breakage/retrieval
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