Certified Abbreviated Injury Scale Specialists (CAISS) Exam Bundle

Boxed & Bold Text - Answer Represent AIS coding rules and conventions and contain directives to assist in the appropriate use of specific descriptions. Brackets - Answer Denote inclusive or exclusive information. Parentheseses - Answer Include synonyms or occasionally, non-clinical terms and p...

Origins of AIS (3) - Answer 1) Standardized system 2) Classify type/severity of injury from MVC 3) Consensus Injury descriptors are organized _________________________ ? - Answer Anatomically Injury severity is ranked relative to its importance to _______________? - Answer The whole body ...

GLOBALLY means the _______________________________ does not change - Answer Severity T/F - TIME from INJURY to TREATMENT affects the AIS - Answer FALSE T/F - Age does NOT affect the AIS - Answer TRUE What is the maximum post dot score? - Answer .6 - not necessarily fatal, just currently unt...

Branches of vessels - Answer these are not coded unless they are named or listed with a specific descriptor Boxed and Bold Text - Answer Represent AIS coding rules and conventions Brackets - Answer Denote inclusive or exclusive information Semicolons - Answer Separate injury descriptors tha...

How do you code GSW with missile lodged in the bone? - Answer As an Open Fx (Clarification document) How do you code bony fractures that are the result of a GSW? - Answer Open Fx How do you code bone contusions? - Answer They are not codeable What are some anatomical landmarks for amputatio...

3 portions of the temporal bone - Answer squamous (vault) mastoid (base) petrous (base) The lamina papyracea is part of the _______________. - Answer medial wall of the orbit The iris, choroid, and ciliary body belong to the ____________. - Answer Uvea (part of the eye) The salivary gland...

AIS Parentheses ( ) tell a coder what? - Answer contain a synonym or definition What does the AIS single digit severity number indicate? - Answer The "average patient" who sustains the coded injury as their only injury Is death a part of the severity code? - Answer No Italics means what i...

What is included in the AIS External chapter? - Answer External soft tissue injuries, burns and other traumtic events like electrical injury, frostbite and hypothermia. What descriptors are in the AIS external chapter? - Answer Abrasion Contusion Laceration Avulsion Degloving Penetrating Bu...

What does AIS define as part of the Chest? - Answer Skin (excluding shoulder girdle & sternoclavicular region), Trachea & Esophagus below the sternal notch, bronchus, diaphragm, heart, lungs, rib cage, sternum, Thorcic vessels(including thoracic aorta & vena cava), Thoracic Spine What does ISS co...

Code penetrating injury to a specific anatomical structure (eg cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem) if this information is known. If specific site is not known or if more than one structure is injured then code to penetrating injury under whole area. What is an important exception to this? - Answer Pen...

Carotid artery injury not specified should be coded to what? - Answer Common carotid artery Jugular vein injury not specified to be coded to what? - Answer Internal jugular vein Define a thrombosis/occlusion in the neck - Answer Thrombosis secondary to trauma from any lesion but laceration(Und...

Is there a code for cervical spine injuries without further substantiation or no autopsy confirmation of specific injuries? - Answer Yes, but it has a severity of 9 How do you code co-existing injuries to the spinal cord and the vertebral column? - Answer They are coded as a single entry and only...

What are the four categories to penetrating injury? - Answer 1. Penetrating injury not further specified 2. Superficial; minor; into the peritoneum but not involving underlying structures. 3. Tissue loss greater than 100 cm² 4. With blood loss greater than 20% by volume" In what section of the ...

Intracranial vessels - Answer Anterior Cerebral artery Basilar artery Internal Carotid artery Middle Cerebral artery Posterior Cerebral artery Vertebral artery When DON'T you code intracranial vessel injuries or nerve injuries? - Answer Crush type injuries and major penetrating injuries to...