Emergency Surgery (concept)
The concept of emergency surgery is used in two places:
when to use Emergency Surgery
- If the patient was admitted from an OR or from Recovery AND
- your site uses the E1, E2, E3 scheme for surgery documentation:
- use E1 as emergency surgery for APACHE II Admit Type and also for TISS Items 39
- all other patients admitted from OR or RR, are considered to be elective surgery
- if your site does not use the E1, E2, E3 scheme in surgery documentation:
- use your judgment and the General Diagnosis Coding Guidelines to decide if the surgery was emergent or elective
- your site uses the E1, E2, E3 scheme for surgery documentation:
- If the patient was admitted from anywhere other than Operating Room or Recovery code as Medical in Admit Type for APACHE II