RESPIRATORY FAILURE DIAGNOSIS CODING

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Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to surgery is assigned based on the type of surgery that the ARDS is associated with. And, the coder must look at subterm “pulmonary insufficiency” for postoperative, respiratory insufficiency. It may be that the coder must query the physician to determine if the patient has

  Syndrome, Respiratory, Distress, Respiratory distress syndrome