Pulmonology Coding Alert

Get to Know How ARDS May Look in the Documentation

If you’re unsure of what an ARDS case might look like when reading documentation, get to know these specifics about the illness. ARDS results from a severe injury to most or all of both lungs. Although ARDS is not a specific disease, it is a lung dysfunction associated with several diseases, such as COVID-19, pneumonia, shock, sepsis, and trauma. Patients [...]
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