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 To be admitted from an OR, the primary admit diagnoses must be the procedure they were in the OR for. See [[Check ORDx]] for more info.
-=== STEMI from home (zz) to St Boniface ===
+=== STEMIs at St Boniface ===
-Occasionally a patient is picked up by paramedics at home and transferred directly to the heart cath lab at St. Boniface Hospital.  They will not go to ER first to facilitate a very rapid "primary" PTCA.  These patients are then sent from the heart cath lab to CCU at STB or HSC.  In this scenario, code 'admit from' home and # diagnosis is angiogram or angioplasty (only exception is a cardiac arrest or cardiogenic shock which would be #1 and the angio would be #2).    --[[User:LKolesar|LKolesar]] 19:11, 1 November 2008 (CDT)
+Occasionally a patient is picked up by paramedics at home and transferred directly to the heart cath lab at St. Boniface Hospital.  They will not go to ER first to facilitate a very rapid "primary" PTCA. See [[STEMI]] for more information.
 === From other hospital via Angio ===