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==Special Cases==
==Special Cases==
===Deceased patient ===
Discharge-to must be left empty for deceased patients.
=== STEMI===
=== STEMI===
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.  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)