So those who died of drowning, being struck from flying or floating debris, electrocution from windblown wires during the hurricane, etc… died from the hurricane.
Actually it’s a bad analogy, the records will show the cause of the lacerations as well as the final cause of death due to infection of same.
Someone crushed by a falling wall during the hurricane who dies weeks or months later due to complications or failure to recover from a coma would still be counted as a hurricane death and rightfully so.
I’m familiar with how the medical community will document the death. What I said was correct. If the person dies of an infection, it will be listed as I said… “condition not present on admission” and the hospital will be blamed. Period.
You just introduced other scenarios that I did not comment on.
If they died of bleeding or a rib through the heart … the car accident will be the cause of death…although they will use some ICD-10 terminology that corresponds to the specifics.
2 billion people did not die on Alderaan. In fact, it’s definitely still there. Trust us. The Rebellion are reporting it exploded to make us look bad. Bad politics. We love Alderaan!
I referred to hospital records. You are introducing legal aspects. From a hospital’s perspective, this “initial cause” as you called it is known as “external cause of morbidity”.
But the ICD-10 guideline says that there is no mandatory requirement to capture this data. It is just useful information for some purposes.
Chapter 20: External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)
The external causes of morbidity codes should never be sequenced as the first-
listed or principal diagnosis.
External cause codes are intended to provide data for injury research and
evaluation of injury prevention strategies. These codes capture how the injury
or health condition happened (cause), the intent (unintentional or accidental; or
intentional, such as suicide or assault), the place where the event occurred the
activity of the patient at the time of the event, and the person’s status (e.g.,
civilian, military). There is no national requirement for mandatory ICD-10-CM external cause code reporting. Unless a provider is subject to a state-based external cause
code reporting mandate or these codes are required by a particular payer,
reporting of ICD-10-CM codes in Chapter 20, External Causes of Morbidity, is
not required. In the absence of a mandatory reporting requirement, providers are encouraged to voluntarily report external cause codes, as they provide valuable data for injury research and evaluation of injury prevention strategies.
They MIGHT list it. But there is no requirement to do so. I provided the indisputable reference for documenting a person’s hospital experience. ICD-10.
You’re a better man than me, Ishmael. I heard Trump’s denouncement of the report and instantly doubted him. That is due to his prolific difficulty with the truth. This is my bias. I have no such bias against George Washington University as I have no experience with them being dishonest. I’ll stand by the report and watch you folks invalidate it.
And nobody kept track of who they were. They just loaded anonymous people onto planes and boats, took them somewhere and none of those people were ever heard from again. Makes total sense.
Evacuations are by their very nature chaotic. We’re not talking about a typical flight or cruise for vacationers and there’s no central reporting or coalation of manifests.
I don’t think anyone would dispute that. The problem is Trump taking to Twitter once again to claim something didn’t happen, and that it’s just a conspiracy against him to make him look bad.
He makes himself look bad 95% of the time, he doesn’t need any help.
And as I said in another thread, imagine if it was one of your loved ones.
Since day one the reporting and commentary on the relief effort has been targeting him as being responsible for unnecessary deaths and much of has claimed he let them die because of racism.
He’s not responsible for any of that reporting or the accusations.
