Your patient is a 27-year-old male complaining of difficulty breathing. He states that he has just returned from a month-long backpacking trip across Arizona. He describes a two-week history of fatigue, fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. He started experiencing difficulty breathing yesterday. He has no significant medical history and takes no medications. Physical examination reveals hot, moist skin; bilateral lower-lobe rales on auscultation of the lungs; and the abdomen is soft and nontender. Which of the following is most likely?

The Apgar scoring system is used to:

A: evaluate the adequacy of a newborn's vital functions following birth. B: assess the need for further resuscitation after delivering 30 seconds of blow-by oxygen. C: estimate a newborn's arterial blood pressure by assessing certain hemodynamic parameters. D: determine the need for and extent of resuscitation immediately following birth.

What should the coder do if the same condition is described as both acute and chronic, and both subentries exist in the Alphabetic Index?

A) Select the code for the acute condition. B) Select the code for the chronic condition. C) Select both codes and sequence the acute code first. D) Select both codes and sequence the chronic code first.