Under Table of Risk, HIGH risk, are examples such as: multiple trauma, acute MI, pulmonary embolus, severe respiratory disease, severe rheumatoid arthritis, acute renal failure, peritonitis, seizure, TIA weakness, sensory loss. (they are under Present Problem, High Risk, on bottom left of Table of Risk.) Sepsis is a common cause of death and is a systemic inflammatory response to infection. Urosepsis may have begun as a urinary tract infection and spread systemically. Normally when we are the first provider to see a patient after such a serious event that landed our patient in the hospital, I view it as high risk, and verify it as a 99215 assuming Exam is comprehensive, and note has also scored High risk under Number of Diagnoses/Management Options.
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