How Much Do YOU Know About Debridement?
October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Study the examples of wounds, debridement action taken, practitioner delivering care, and tissue removed. Assume the care facility is a hospital-owned outpatient wound department (HOPD). Then determine the type of debridement, documentation, and coding.
Understand that in actual practice, you would have a great deal more information about the patient in your care — eg, medications, nutritional status, previous treatment, and vascular status.Also, the information given may not match the exact history of the patients in the pictures; it was compiled to illustrate particular scenarios.
Discuss these cases with your clinical group.Then, please share your answers with TWC.Take a few moments to email your responses to our Editor at twc@hmpcommunications.com.
