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Patients taking opioids for pain relief can develop tolerance and dependence. Tolerance develops when a patient requires increasing amounts of medication to produce pain reduction. Dependence shows characteristic withdrawal.
Being patient means waiting for something without being bothered with having to wait. A patient is a person who requires medical care. A patient is a noun.
A person who requires medical care.
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It depends upon the patient's condition..more appropriate answer requires more details.
Persistent Vomiting
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the patient has severe asthma and requires frequent therapy with oral steroids
Contact isolation is used for patient's who have or have had an illness that is spreadable by contact with the person or items that the patient may have touched. Examples of contact isolation conditions are patient's with active c-diff, MRSA, VRE, etc.
Any evaluation and management services rendered requires the patient to be present (face-to-face). There is not an evaluation and managment code for without patient.