For Independence Day Mishaps.
OSI: With the fourth of July just around the corner, Americans will be busy planning for a long weekend and finding ways to celebrate this year’s Independence Day. It is the perfect time to bring family and friends together as well. But, with more fun activities, the risk for accidents and injuries is higher. There were reports highlighting the fact that each year fireworks cause many injuries in the United States during Independence Day celebrations. For fireworks-related injuries or any other accidents, people consider treatment in emergency rooms. Emergency department physicians can outsource medical billing tasks, and focus more on providing patient care.
Let us look at the ICD-10 codes for injuries and illnesses that could occur during this federal holiday.
Z28.310
What’s the code for getting a bottle rocket stuck in your butt?
Asking for a friend.
odinga knows that code
1d10t
Eye-dee-ten-tee.
…we had illegal, but plentiful, M-80s back in the day, and I had baggiefulls of unreattachable fingers to prove it.
…last time I went to an ER for a work injury myself, the 10 year old NPR that they use in place of doctors nowdays glued my finger incorrectly and left it at that. I had a more interesting conversation with the outside contractor that the hospital now uses for the piss tests because its not like hospitals have labs or anything, who unlike Doogie Millenial over there was a 60ish Black guy who had served his Country, worked a whole other career in a hopital and now just enjoyed driving around between hospitals and enjoying the drama of an ER without actually having to do anything about it any more.
I have a bunch of other stuff I’ve seen from various family visits to ERs, but it boils down to saying that I hope Punky Newstwr the Affirmative Action medico is really good at 10 coding because they absolutely SUCK at doing their actual JOBS.
My ex was an ER nurse 40 years ago. The only “code” I remember was “Paging Dr. Firestone”. Which meant the Hospital was on fire.
CT-FOAD
Butt Hurt by being told by Clarence Thomas to go pound sand
Tony R AT 10:06 AM
My ex was an ER” nurse 40 years ago. The only “code” I remember was “Paging Dr. Firestone”. Which meant the Hospital was on fire.”
…I was at a hospital in Sevierville TN with a relative and kept hearing a “Code Silver” being called. I asked a nurse what that meant and they said they didn’t really have a thoracic surgeon or a heart specialist, so they would fly chest pains to Knoxville or some such place, and “Code Silver” for some reason meant the helicopter was there.
This was a dozen years or so ago. I’m guessing it’s only gotten worse.
Or they have Dr. Mugape now, one or the other…
I fingered them all as serial killers 3 years ago. Ask me how I knew… ht Brad
Paging Dr Howard, Dr Fine, Dr Howard!
Wondering how many “waterskis on fire” incidents there are?
Struck by Football/Volleyball. Initial encounter.
Broken ribs and fractured spine, result of teammates piling on top of patient to save ball/game. Secondary encounter.
Bitten by squirrel, initial encounter.
Mauled by mountain lion who was chasing panicked squirrel.
Secondary encounter.
I wonder if anyone holds a record for the most codes racked up in one single ER visit.
There are a number of shark encounter codes, and curiously a number of codes related to Orca whale encounters, so weird
Dice – It’s an UNHAPPY 4th of July for THEM! 😂
https://youtu.be/WofMreOz0pM
ICD-10 codes are what happens when bureaucrats that don’t know what they are doing, which is pretty much all of them, start making rules.
if you d-suckers need racial info, i’ll leave a duce – see if you can work out the dna
What is that line that Ron White uses all the time?
Why lookie here, just up the road a piece from me.
Daughter send this one to me.
Who LOOKS DOWN an unexploded mortar shell that didn’t go off when lit?
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2023/07/03/man-flown-to-hospital-in-critical-condition-after-commercial-grade-firework-explodes-in-his-face-near-cary/
Anymouse AT 11:56 AM
…dumb as that is, there’s worse…
http://www.hashitout.com/fireworks-deaths-call-for-darwin-awards/
“V91.07XA: Burn due to water skis on fire”
explain please…..
SNS AT 12:29 PM
Please note the second one in your link did the same exact thing. I don’t have the follow up on the guy who did it here, but he was in ICU so he might qualify for a Darwin Award soon.
Not to be crass or uncaring, but this last weekend coming home from work around 11PM had two drunks cross in front from a darkened area and I clipped one of them. Mixed emotions when it could have been drunk zero (0) and Dodge caravan one (1). Too long of a story for here, but when the first cop arrived he called the idiot by name and it would seem that he’s one of the town drunks with history. Little damage to the drunk, but new mirror needed on the van.
Well, it getting past my nap time so maybe I’ll check back later…