Pediatric Critical Illness: MODS and Pulmonary Hypertension

Launch date: December 1, 2024

Presented by: Amy Sanderson, MD
Sheilah Snyder, MD, FAAP

The field of pediatric critical illness is full of descriptive terms that may not easily translate to diagnosis codes. The use of non-specific terms can create challenges to CDI specialists and hospital coders to select the most appropriate diagnosis codes. Join our pediatric physicians in a discussion about multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) and pulmonary hypertension, exploring what these terms mean to providers, and how to interpret clinical documentation.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Define the clinical scenario in children that clinicians are describing with the term multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS)
• Differentiate between the types of pediatric pulmonary hypertension
• Discuss best strategies to help providers learn a new documentation language

Agenda

• Introduction
• Definition of MODS
• Neurologic, respiratory, circulatory, gastrointestinal, renal dysfunction
• Acute tubular necrosis
• Coagulation defects
• Review of pulmonary hypertension
• Case studies
• WHO classification
• Pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension
• Therapies and documentation
• How to help providers be more specific

Who Should Listen?

• CDI directors and managers
• CDI staff
• HIM/coding directors and managers
• Coding staff
• Revenue integrity directors and managers
• Revenue integrity staff
• Denials and appeals staff
• Quality professionals

Meet the Speaker

Amy Sanderson, MD, is a pediatric intensivist at Boston Children's Hospital and is an assistant professor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She was the physician advisor for the CDI program for eight years. Sanderson has presented at several national conferences, has published scholarly articles on medical documentation and has also contributed to the book Pediatric CDI: Building Blocks for Success. In addition, she is a founding member of the Pediatric Documentation Research Collaborative, a research group that focuses on documentation-related issues in pediatric hospitals.

Sheilah Snyder, MD, FAAP, is a pediatric hospitalist at Children's Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska. Snyder serves as a physician advisor for the Epic inpatient team and CDI program, which allows her to leverage the electronic health record to produce excellent CDI outcomes. Snyder has presented at the ACDIS conference and has also contributed to the book Pediatric CDI: Building Blocks for Success.

Continuing Education

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