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The patient has a long history of morbid obesity and presents for surgical treatment. She underwent laparoscopic biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) with duodenal switch and laparoscopic vertical sleev...
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The patient presents for surgical correction of congenital dysplasia of the left hip. The surgeon performs a left periacetabular osteotomy. During surgery, incisions are carried out to loosen the a...
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The patient, who developed acute hypoxic respiratory failure and septic shock, underwent placement of an arterial line. The operative notes states that the upper artery was accessed using ultrasoun...
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A critically-ill transfer patient with an arterial catheter in place was connected to a pressure transducer for continuous monitoring of blood pressure (systolic, diastolic, mean and pulse pressure...
In the inpat...
A child presents to the pediatrician’s office with wheezing and coughing. The child does not have any history of asthma, bronchitis or other respiratory problem. Both parents smoke electronic cig...
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A pregnant patient, 38-week gestation, was admitted in active labor. She had a manually assisted vaginal delivery of a normal infant. The patient suffered a second degree perineal laceration during...
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We were given advice to assign a code for “hepatic failure with hepatic coma” anytime “hepatic encephalopathy” is documented. Is this correct?
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The patient had multiple drug-eluting stents placed percutaneously in three distinct lesions occurring in three separate coronary arteries: the first diagonal (D1) branch of the left anterior desce...
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A patient had one long mid-to-distal lesion in the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery, which was treated percutaneously with two drug-eluting stents. What is the appropriate body part v...
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The patient had a lesion in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery that was treated percutaneously with one drug-eluting stent and a lesion in the distal LAD artery that was treated wit...
Two distinct...