CDI ICD-10-CM Documentation Tips: Gustilo Fracture Classification Chapter 19, “Injury, Poisoning, and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (S00-T99).” Fracture codes have much greater specificity than in ICD-9-CM and require the level of the encounter be identified.
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M97.0 A traumatic or pathologic injury to the femur in which the continuity of the femur is broken. Breaks or rupture in bone situated between the hip and the knee, the femur. Fractures of the femur.
ICD-10-CM S72.001A is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group (s) (MS-DRG v38.0): 521 Hip replacement with principal diagnosis of hip fracture with mcc 522 Hip replacement with principal diagnosis of hip fracture without mcc 535 Fractures of hip and pelvis with mcc
Categories S52, S72, and S82 are impacted by the Gustilo Fracture Classification During the coding process assign the code to capture the type of open fracture using the appropriate seventh character (categories S52, S72, S82): B = Initial encounter for open fracture type I or II
Treatment and prognosis Surgical management: injuries up to and including grade 3a can be treated with local soft tissue coverage. grade 3b injuries require free or rotational flap repair. grade 3c injuries require vascular repair and usually soft tissue free or rotational flap repair.
The Gustilo Anderson classification, also known as the Gustilo classification, is the most widely accepted classification system of open (or compound) fractures. The grading system is used to guide management of compound fractures, with higher grade injuries associated with higher risk of complications.
Type IIIA--Adequate soft-tissue coverage of a fractured bone despite extensive soft-tissue laceration or flaps, or high-energy trauma irrespective of the size of the wound. Type IIIB--Extensive soft-tissue injury loss with periosteal stripping and bone exposure. This is usually associated with massive contamination.
Progression from grade 1 to 3C implies a higher degree of energy involved in the injury, higher soft tissue and bone damage and higher potential for complications. It is important to recognize that a Gustilo score of grade 3C implies vascular injury as well as bone and connective-tissue damage.
They categorized open injuries into the familiar three categories, based on wound size, level of contamination, and osseous injury, as follows: Type I = an open fracture with a wound less than 1 cm long and clean; Type II = an open fracture with a laceration greater than 1 cm long without extensive soft tissue damage, ...
Gustilo-Anderson type I open fractures is a low energy injury with wounds less than 1 cm with minimal soft tissue damage. Type II fractures are low to moderate energy injuries with wounds that are greater than 1 cm with moderate soft tissue and muscle damage.
Severe type III open fractures were subtyped according to the differences in prognosis for sepsis, amputation, and treatment: IIIA (adequate soft-tissue coverage of bone with extensive soft-tissue laceration or flaps), IIIB (extensive soft-tissue loss with periosteal stripping and bone exposure), and IIIC (arterial ...
In ICD-10-CM a fracture not indicated as displaced or nondisplaced should be coded to displaced, and a fracture not designated as open or closed should be coded to closed. While the classification defaults to displaced for fractures, it is very important that complete documentation is encouraged.
Although there are many types of bone fractures, there are four main categories a fracture usually falls under: displaced, non-displaced, open and closed.
The Salter-Harris classification system is a method used to grade fractures that occur in children and involve the growth plate, which is also known as the physis or physial plate. The classification system grades fractures according to the involvement of the physis, metaphysis, and epiphysis.
Practice Essentials. Growth plate (physeal) fractures may be defined as disruptions in the cartilaginous physis of long bones that may or may not involve epiphyseal or metaphyseal bone.
There are many types of fractures, but the main categories are displaced, non-displaced, open, and closed.