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🌱 Answer: Yes, if done within the first 48 hours after death when they will be accurate.

Drug Use Test Results

🤔 Question: Can Fentanyl be added as a separate drug field value?

🌱 Answer: Not at the present time. Please select “Opioid” and select "Other drug(s)" and specify in the text field.

Circumstances of Injury

🤔 Question: How should abuse should be captured. Some pediatric patients come in with suspicious burns and child protective services (CPS) is called. After CPS investigates, sometimes it's ruled as not abuse and patient goes home with the caregiver that brought them in. In order to get the Report of Abuse fields to open, you have to click on Suspected Assault/Abuse. Is that what should be entered even after the investigation rules out abuse? And if so, does the Primary ICD-10 External Cause Code have to be an abuse code? In other words, does the circumstance of injury have to match the ICD 10 external cause code? This feels like underreporting the number of investigations of abuse, but then if no abuse is found, there will be overreporting abuse cases.

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🌱 Answer: The burn surgeon should determine the most likely cause of the injury (burn or non-burn) and then the specific cause if known. If the surgeon thinks it was, for example, a friction/shearing injury but does not sure specifically what type you can enter Friction/Shearing: Other or if it looks like a Traumatic Injury select a cause or Other.

Non-Burn Injury

🤔 Question: Are Road Rash Injuries being reinstated as burn injuries?

🌱 Answer: No, Road Rash Injuries are considered Friction/Shearing Injuries and are categorized as Non-Burn Injuries.