You Be the Coder:
Keep Your Eye on Patient Age for This Case
Published on Tue May 07, 2024
Question: We recently saw a 4-day old infant who presented with a yellowish discharge from both eyes for the last couple of days. The pediatrician examined the baby and documented red, swollen eyes with a sticky discharge and swabbed a sample to send to the lab. The lab results just came back identifying the causative agent as gonococcus bacterium, and the [...]