Assign diagnosis codes for the following scenario: The patient is admitted with cerebral infarction due to stenosis of the left anterior cerebral artery with ataxia and dysphasia. The number of blanks may or may not represent the number of required codes.  Be sure to enter the word none in the blank if no code is required. Coder tip: If the code has a red plus sign in front of it, it is not a complete code. Principal diagnosis: Other diagnoses:

The patient is a 38-year-old male with bipolar disorder and PTSD.  The patient has a long-standing history of hypertension and a long-standing history of cigarette smoking and using chewing tobacco.  He fell and sustained a type I compound fracture of the neck of his right femur yesterday, and the patient was seen and admitted yesterday.  Today, the patient was taken to the operating room, where an open reduction and internal fixation of the fracture of the right femur was performed.   NOTE:  This is worded as a long-standing history of hypertension and using chewing tobacco.  It does NOT say “a long-standing PAST history of….” Principal Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Diagnosis:

Assign and arrange the diagnosis codes for the following inpatient case: This 45 year old female was brought to the Emergency Department (ED) after being found unresponsive. Family reports patient has been on a fast and refused to eat.  She is known to have Lupus and has for years taken aspirin and systemic prednisone to reduce inflammation, these medications will be continued after discharge.  She is known to be opioid dependent. Final diagnosis: nondiabetic hypoglycemic coma, opioid dependence, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Principal Diagnosis: Other Diagnosis: Other Diagnosis: Other Diagnosis: Other Diagnosis: Other Diagnosis: The number of blanks may or may not represent the number of required codes.  Be sure to enter the word none in the blank if no code is required.

The difference between alexia and dyslexia s that alexia is ________ and dyslexia is _________.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Broca’s aphasia:

Lesions to the angular gyrus in the language-dominant hemisphere generally cause anomia. 

Blood supply to the zone of language is accomplished mostly via the:

In the field today, the most popular framework for classifying aphasia is based on fluent/non-fluent characteristics. 

Predictors of possible levels of recovery include all of the following, except:

An aphasic error that is mostly unintelligible is: