According to the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, codes for symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions are not to be used as the principal diagnosis when:

Which of the following is the UHDDS definition for principal diagnosis?

How is the venous bicarbonate level represented on a lab report?

While managing a septic patient, what is the target value guiding fluid resuscitation and vasopressor therapy?

Complication is defined as an additional diagnosis that describes a condition arising after the beginning of a hospital observation and treatment and then modifying the course of the patients illness or the medical care required.

Choose the correct code assignment for the following scenario: 57-year-old seen in the physician’s office with fever and chills, rule out pneumonia. Patient will return tomorrow for a chest x-ray

Choose the correct code assignment for the following scenario: Patient is seen in the outpatient laboratory department for a blood draw for a blood alcohol test. The test result reported no presence of alcohol in the blood sample.

Which of the following statements best describes the principle of a medication’s “steady state”?

PCR can be used to add restriction sites. Which statement is true concerning this?

Choose the correct code assignment for the following scenario: 9-year-old injured while skating at the public ice skating rink when she fell off her ice skates.