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AIS - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Abbreviated Injury Scale.
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Anatomical Scoring system that ranks accident severity.
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Used by emergency medical personnel.
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AIS Body Regions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Head/Neck
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2.Face
3.Chest/Thorax
4.Abd/Pelvic Contents |\
5.Extremities/Pelvic Girdle |\
6.External-Skin & Burns |\ |\
AIS Body Regions Combines for ISS Body region 1 -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Head and Neck
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AIS Code Descriptions-Parenthesis - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Contain synonyms for specific type of injury, provide a
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definition for the injury description
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AIS Code Descriptions-Boxed Bold Type - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Contains directives to assist the coder in
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the appropriate use of specific description.
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,AIS Code Descriptions-Brackets - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Contain inclusionary or exclusionary information,
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contain organ injury scale grade (OIS 3)
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AIS Code Descriptions-Italics - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Used for proper-names anatomical structures or
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injuries, and for OIS grades
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AIS Code Descriptions-Semicolons - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Separate injury descriptions that are comparable in
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severity
AIS Codes-Fifth and Sixth digit - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Level of injury within the specific body region and
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anatomic structure |\
AIS Codes-First dot - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Body Region
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AIS Codes-Post dot - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔AIS Injury
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Severity Number
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AIS Codes-Second digit - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Type of
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Anatomic Structure |\
, AIS Codes-Third and Fourth digit - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Specific Anatomic Structure |\ |\
AIS Components - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Body Region,
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Type of Anatomic Structure, Specific Anatomic Structure,
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Level, Decimal, AIS |\ |\
AIS Components-Breakdown - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Body Region (1st number), Type of Anatomic Structure
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(2nd number), Specific Anatomic Structure (3rd-4th),
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Level (5th-6th), Decimal, AIS Severity Number=3
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AIS Components-Numerical Identifier - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔7 Digit Unique Numerical Identifier-Pre Dot
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Code: 6 digits to the left of the decimal point. AIS Severity
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Number: a single digit to the right of the decimal point,
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Injury Description-text, Reference-to AIS 98 and FCI
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AIS Injury Scale-How many body regions? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔6 |\
AIS main body region numbers corresponding with AIS
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scores-2 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Face |\ |\ |\ |\