by Dianna Foley, RHIA, CHPS, CCS, CDIP
Test your ICD-10-CM coding skills with this Klutz family experience.
In April, Mr. and Mrs. Klutz celebrated their 20th
wedding anniversary. As a surprise, the
children decided to make them breakfast in bed.
Of course, things went awry as they usually do for the Klutz children. Practice coding ICD-10-CM diagnosis and
external cause coding for each child’s injury that occurred in their
single-family home.
The children were making bacon, scrambled eggs,
and toast, along with hot tea for their parents. Janine kicked off the accidents while she was
making the tea. She accidentally reached
over the tea kettle to get the mugs and ended up with a second-degree burn on
her right forearm from the steam. She
dropped a mug, and startled Egon who was manning the skillet with the bacon and
eggs. He grabbed the metal skillet
handle without a potholder and received a first-degree burn on the palm of his
right hand. Egon dropped the skillet,
and Peter, who had been helping him, tried to grab it, but hit the back of his
left hand on the hot burner of the stove ending up with a second-degree
burn. All the commotion flustered little
Dana, who was in charge of the toast.
She reached her right index finger in the toaster and sustained a
first-degree burn. Raymond tried to
help Janine by grabbing the tea kettle which led to erythemal burn on all the
fingers, including the thumb, of his right hand. Fortunately, no child’s burn was greater than
10% of their body surface and relatively minor overall. Mr. and Mrs. Klutz were delighted the
injuries weren’t worse, and enjoyed their (revised) anniversary breakfast of
Captain Crunch cereal with the children.
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