Witnessed Cardiac Arrest
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Category: Cardiovascular (old) |
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| Main Diagnosis: | Witnessed Cardiac Arrest |
| Sub Diagnosis: | Witnessed Cardiac Arrest |
| Diagnosis Code: | 100-02 |
| Comorbid Diagnosis: | No |
| Charlson Comorbid coding (pre ICD10): | 0 |
| Program: | CC & Med |
| Status: | Currently Collected
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A witnessed arrest patient in ICU must also code for Cooling Protocol-BRR.
For in-hospital witnessed arrests, code as a witnessed arrest (100-2) only if event was witnessed by hospital medical staff, this does not include house keeping, maintenance or visiting family.
- see Category Arrest for general info on coding arrests
- see: Unwitnessed Cardiac Arrest
- also see Respiratory Arrest
Discussion
Could an out-of-hospital arrest ever be coded as witnessed? Please don't answer in the discussion section, just delete the discussion and update the definition.Ttenbergen 00:05, 5 May 2009 (CDT)
Yes and this is the response I got from Laura on this question. The witnessed cardiac arrest on the wiki is speaking only of "in Hospital" arrests when it requires hospital staff to witness. In the community, I use anyone as a witness. The only unwitnessed arrests are if no-one is around when the person collapses and no one knows when it occurs and when CPR is delayed because no one could do it.