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What are the significance of the female breast in the postpartum period?
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What is the period of 3 to 6 weeks after childbirth called?
The term describing the six weeks after a woman has given birth is the postpartum period.
What period takes place shortly after childbirth?
postpartum
How many days are typically included in the global surgical period?
2 to 7 days
Can mastitis cause period cramping but make you not have any period.?
This will not cause period cramping or make you not have a period. This is a consequence of a fungal infection.
What is postpartum disorder?
Postpartum refers to a period of depression after childbirth. Also known as the 'baby blues' or postnatal depression. It does not occur in all women and in those that it does, the degree varies. It is caused by hormonal changes within the body and chemical balance. Most women experience a mild form of this.The postpartum period is the period following childbirth.
Which occurs during the postpartum period?
The mother experience hormonal changes
When a patient is seen by his surgeon for postoperative complications any services provided are?
typically included in the global surgical package that the surgeon billed for the original surgery. Any postoperative care and follow-up services needed within the global period are generally not separately billable. This is to ensure that the surgeon is responsible for the patient's care during both the surgery and the immediate postoperative period.
What is the coding for obstetrics including items covered by the global fee for antepartum and postpartum periods of normal pregnancy?
One of the unusual aspects of OB is the global fee that encompasses the antepartum, delivery, and postpartum period of normal pregnancy. The initial blood history, physical examination, blood pressure, weight, fetal heart tones, routine analysis, and monthly visits up to twenty-eight weeks gestation, biweekly visits, thirty-six weeks gestation, and weekly visits until delivery are all included in antepartum care. Delivery services should include hospital admission with history and physical, the management of uncomplicated labor, and the vaginal pr cesarean delivery. Episiotomy and use of forceps are also included. Any medical complications should be coded separately. Normal, uncomplicated and hospital and office visits for six weeks following vaginal or cesarean section delivery are included in postpartum care. It is not unusual for a patient to have more than one physician to provide complete obstetrics care due to extended length of care of the OB patient. If a physician provides part or all of the antepartum and postpartum care, but does not perform delivery due to referral to another physician or termination of pregnancy by abortion, the antepartum and postpartum care CPT coded 59409-59410 and 59414-59430 should be used.
What is gestational epilepsy?
The occurrence of seizures exclusively during (usually the first) pregnancy or in the postpartum period
What is the global period for cpt 57454?
what is global period for 57494
Many changes take place in a mother and child during the first six weeks after birth. what is this period adjustment called?
postpartum period
