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The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.
ICD-10-PCS: 58.0: OPS-301 code: 5-580 [edit on Wikidata] A urethrotomy is an operation which involves incision of the urethra, especially for relief of a stricture ...
repair according to the ICD-10-PCS, in the Medical and Surgical Section 0, root operation Q, means restoring, to the extent possible, a body part to its normal anatomic structure and function. This definition, repair, is used only when the method used to accomplish the repair is not one of the other root operations.
A proctosigmoidectomy, Hartmann's operation or Hartmann's procedure is the surgical resection of the rectosigmoid colon with closure of the anorectal stump and formation of an end colostomy. It was used to treat colon cancer or inflammation (proctosigmoiditis, proctitis, diverticulitis , volvulus , etc.).
ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) (for inpatient use; used in United States) ICD-9-CM Volume 3 (subset of ICD-9-CM) (formerly used in United States prior to the introduction of the ICD-10-PCS) Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) (used in United States) [3] Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
Alteration, or root operation 0 according to the ICD-10-PCS, modifying the natural anatomic structure of a body part without affecting its function, e.g. to improve appearance; The Alteration, 1976 alternate history novel by Kingsley Amis; Alterations, a 1978 play by Michael Abbensetts; Alteration, by Altera Enigma
ICD-10-PCS: 0F194ZB: ICD-9-CM: 51.37 [edit on Wikidata] A hepatoportoenterostomy or Kasai portoenterostomy is a surgical treatment performed on infants with Type IVb ...
Artificial rupture of membranes (AROM), also known as an amniotomy, is performed by a midwife or obstetrician and was once thought to be an effective means to induce or accelerate labor.