Guideline for coding living donor organ donation: Difference between revisions

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This page explains how we living donor organ donation; it has it's own page because many concepts tie together around this and the information should only live in one place. See also [[Guideline for coding organ donation after death]].

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=== Organ donors ===

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* Code [[Preparatory care (incl preop optimization)]] as as [[Primary Admit Diagnosis]] for a live organ donor who comes in electively before donating the organ (usually a kidney) to be "tuned up" by the surgical service.

* In most cases, the person goes off to OR to have the organ harvested and never returns to ICU or Medicine. In that usual case, ''there will be no codes identifying that the person was an organ donor, and '''this is OK''' ''.

*In the rarer case where they go to OR, get the organ harvested and have a problem that gets them to an ICU or one of our wards, then you should code BOTH of the following:

**As an [[Admit Procedure]], combine the organ removed with [[Procure, Harvest, Obtain for Further Use]]

**As an [[Admit Diagnosis]], code [[Organ donor (organ/tissue donation by the donor)]] AND whatever operative complication they had that led to coming to the unit. {{DT | needs to go elsewhere}}

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 This page explains how we living donor organ donation; it has it's own page because many concepts tie together around this and the information should only live in one place. See also [[Guideline for coding organ donation after death]].
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+=== Organ donors ===
-{{DT | content to move here from [[Preparatory care (incl preop optimization)]]}}.
+* Code [[Preparatory care (incl preop optimization)]] as as [[Primary Admit Diagnosis]] for a live organ donor who comes in electively before donating the organ (usually a kidney) to be "tuned up" by the surgical service.
+* In most cases, the person goes off to OR to have the organ harvested and never returns to ICU or Medicine. In that usual case, ''there will be no codes identifying that the person was an organ donor, and '''this is OK''' ''.
+*In the rarer case where they go to OR, get the organ harvested and have a problem that gets them to an ICU or one of our wards, then you should code BOTH of the following:
+**As an [[Admit Procedure]], combine the organ removed with [[Procure, Harvest, Obtain for Further Use]]
+**As an [[Admit Diagnosis]], code [[Organ donor (organ/tissue donation by the donor)]] AND whatever operative complication they had that led to coming to the unit. {{DT | needs to go elsewhere}}
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