Trauma post-op vs non post-op

In HSC SICU Collection Guide it said

Part 1 was moved to Operating room visits

Part 2:

trauma post-op vs post-op

"A trauma patient who has an injury that is not initially treated e.g. subdural hematoma non-post-op MVA, but subsequently has this evacuated in the OR will have that coded as a complication under Trauma, but now as post-op."

• Again, if this is true it is likely not only for HSC SICU. Is this true for all Critical Care? Is it even true for Medicine? Is there maybe an article addressing this already? I was unable to find it... Ttenbergen 22:39, 2013 August 26 (CDT)Template:Discussion
  • Is this specific to trauma? Likely would be true for any dx caused by a OR visit during admission, no? Ttenbergen 22:43, 2013 August 26 (CDT)Template:Discussion
    • HSC_SICU is the primary trauma center however, it can be applicable to any ICU or medicine unit. This intruction highlights the process on how to use the trauma codes of "non post op" and "post op" in the circumstance described above..

"*If the patient is a trauma who subsequently goes to the OR, the diagnosis is found under TRAUMA, e.g. a craniotomy to evacuate a traumatic SDH from an MVA, will be a complication of 'Subdural hematoma-POST-OP - MVA'. "

• this was just another example in regards to how apply the trauma codes and not the neuro surgery codes

• What is actually being clarified? It seems self-explanatory to me. Trying to understand where to link this into the general documentation. Is there a common mistake that a collector would make if they did not read this? If so, what is it? Ttenbergen 11:18, 2015 May 27 (CDT)

Might be related to

• Category:Trauma
• Category:Trauma Surgery (likely incomplete category)
• Category:Trauma Non Post OP (likely incomplete category)