Improving accuracy of coding plastic surgical operations

Improving the accuracy of operation coding in surgical discharge summaries.

Procedural coding in surgical discharge summaries is extremely important; as well as communicating to healthcare staff which procedures have been performed, it also provides information that is used by the hospital's coding department. The OPCS code (Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures) is used to generate the tariff that allows the ho...

Putting it all together: recommendations for improving pain management in plastic surgical procedures-surgical facial rejuvenation.

BACKGROUND Postoperative pain is a major concern for patients undergoing facial aesthetic surgery. Aggressive efforts to reduce postoperative pain while avoiding adverse sequelae, such as nausea and vomiting, will result in an improved patient experience. Newer pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and longer-acting local anesthetics offer the potential to reduce pain and enhance patient satisfacti...

Surgical treatment of Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome during plastic operations in patients with Ebstein's anomaly.

OBJECTIVE Ebstein's anomaly is the most common pathology associated with the accessory conduction pathways. METHODS From January 1990 to August 1999 48 patients underwent surgical repair of Ebstein's anomaly by various plastic techniques. The pathways were identified and characterized at preoperative electrophysiologic mapping in 17 (34.5%) patients. There were seven males and ten females. Th...

No need for preoperative antiseptics in elective outpatient plastic surgical operations: a prospective study.

The development of antisepsis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized health care. The time-honored technique of skin preparation is to scrub the entire operative area of the patient for 5 to 7 minutes with a germicidal detergent solution and then paint the region with an antimicrobial solution of either tincture of povidone-iodine (Betadine) or chlorhexidine. Althou...

Improving the Accuracy of the Solutions of Riccati Equations