Smart Tips For Pulmonary Ventilation Perfusion Scanning
Published on Wed Sep 04, 2013
Look for injection or inhalation to determine perfusion or ventilation scans. When your radiologist performs a ventilation/perfusion scan (or VQ scan) to help rule out a suspected pulmonary embolism, you might encounter terms such as "MAA" and "DTPA" in the clinical notes. The challenge is that you won’t be able to locate these terms in the CPT® code descriptors. This [...]