Which of the following is reported with a code from category Z95?
a. presence of xenogenic heart valve
b. adjustment of cardiac pacemaker
c. coronary angioplasty status without implant
d. complications of cardiac devices
a
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You and your EMT partner are responding to a medical aid call in the rural West County area. The dispatcher advises that the caller is reporting the patient as having a history of "plegia." Why would it be beneficial to have the dispatcher clarify a prefix for the word plegia?
A) A patient with plegia is potentially contagious, and the EMTs need to know what precautions are required. B) Without a clarifying prefix, it is difficult for the EMTs to effectively prepare for the type of patient they may encounter. C) Because a dysplegiac patient generally requires an EMT-Paramedic level of care, and it may change the level of response. D) There is actually no need to clarify the word.