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== Special Situations ==  
== Special Situations ==  
*TEVAR  Thoracic Endovascular aortic repair. I use the appropriate aneurysm repair code and then code peripheral angiogram to indicate this was done in the angio suite percutaneously and not in the OR through a sternotomy.
*TEVAR  Thoracic Endovascular aortic repair. I use the appropriate aneurysm repair code and then code peripheral angiogram to indicate this was done in the angio suite percutaneously and not in the OR through a sternotomy.
still code as coming from OR.
**TAVI  Transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Minimally invasive, done through large vessel or small incision in chest. I code AVR then either peripheral angiogram or thoracotomy depending which approach they use.


==Other STB ICU collection guide info STB CCU Collection Guide==  
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