Camping Calamities

by Dianna Foley, RHIA, CHPS, CCS, CDIP

Test your ICD-10-CM coding skills with this Klutz family experience.

No summer is complete for the Klutz family unless they have gone camping.  This year they went to Mount Hightop for their excursion.  Of course, no outing by the family transpires without some type of calamity, so let’s see what befalls the children this time.  The first injury happened to Peter, who was fishing down at the lake.  When he was baiting the hook, he accidentally stuck the hook in his right middle finger.  Luckily, this wasn’t the first time Mr. Klutz had seen this injury, so he was prepared.  He removed the hook, and disinfected the finger, wrapping it in a bandage.  Next, it was antibiotic ointment liberally applied to the bilateral knee abrasions that Janine incurred.  She’d been hiking through the forest and fell into a stream.  Little Dana picked some blooming wildflowers for her mom, but to get to them she walked through a patch of poison ivy in the forest.  Her little legs were itchy and treated with calamine lotion.  While pitching the tent, Egon suffered a right shoulder contusion/abrasion when he was struck by a falling rock at the campsite, which had been built at the base of a rocky outcropping.  Some cold water from the lake was applied with a cloth to the contusion followed by antibiotic ointment for the abrasion.  Finally, as the family was breaking camp, a squirrel bit Raymond on his left index finger, as he was helping to take down the tent at the campsite.   The family made a quick stop at urgent care for that injury and then were on their way back home.  All children safe and (fairly) sound, until next year’s camping adventure! 

 

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