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Emergency Department Coding:

Remember to Code Needle Decompression for This eFAST Exam

Published on Tue Aug 11, 2026

Question: A patient presents to the emergency department (ED) with respiratory distress, hypotension, and a large thorax contusion after a metal barrel fell on them while they were working their job at a commercial construction building site. The ED physician evaluates the patient and decides they are too unstable for CT transport, so the physician places the patient on supplemental [...]
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