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Know These Key Terms When Coding Labor Anesthesia

Published on Thu Apr 20, 2017

Brushing up on vocabulary can help you understand what was done. Getting familiar with certain terminology will help you gain a better understanding of regional anesthesia for obstetrics and what the codes represent. An intrathecal injection is one into the spinal canal, more specifically into the sub-arachnoid space so that it reaches the cerebral spinal fluid. You’ll find that several [...]
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