Planar nuclear medicine imaging of the upper right extremity veins using Tc-99m would be reported with code ____________________.

Your patient is a young man who was the unrestrained driver of a car that struck a telephone pole. He is unconscious, has no external bleeding, and is breathing erratically. His blood pressure is 76/50, pulse rate present only at his carotid is 130 and weak. What stage of shock is the patient in?

A) Decompensated shock B) Hypovolemic shock C) Compensated shock D) Irreversible shock

The following questions will require the use of an ICD-9-CM code book to complete the sentence. Drainage of an intraperitoneal abscess is coded to procedure code __________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word