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This 2-day course covers the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and Injury Severity Score (ISS) for coding injuries. The course is designed for medical professionals, researchers, and others involved in injury databases. Over 14 hours, participants will learn about AIS structure and coding rules, practice abstracting injury data from charts, and calculate ISS for multiple injuries. Topics include AIS history, external and internal body region injuries, and combining codes. Accreditation is offered for continuing education. The $150 fee includes materials, food, and certification upon completion.

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AIS 2015 Registration1

This 2-day course covers the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and Injury Severity Score (ISS) for coding injuries. The course is designed for medical professionals, researchers, and others involved in injury databases. Over 14 hours, participants will learn about AIS structure and coding rules, practice abstracting injury data from charts, and calculate ISS for multiple injuries. Topics include AIS history, external and internal body region injuries, and combining codes. Accreditation is offered for continuing education. The $150 fee includes materials, food, and certification upon completion.

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AAAM – Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

AIS 2015 Injury Scaling: Uses and Techniques


April 27-28, 2015
Time: 7:30 – 5:00
Lansing Community College, Michigan

***Offered by the Michigan Trauma Coalition***


Who Should Attend:
The 2-day course is designed for registrars, trauma nurse coordinator / program manager, physicians,
hospital records personnel and researchers or engineers who are responsible for injury databases.
(Participants should have general knowledge of anatomy.)

Description:
Topics covered: A brief history of injury scaling methods: the Abbreviated Injury Scale, uses; coding rules
and conventions; methods for assessing the multiple injury patients. The course, which includes
approximately 14 hours of classroom work, is divided into lectures and work sessions in which actual
hospital charts are used for coding exercises. The course does not teach how to use the ICD. It is designed
for those relatively new to AIS coding.

Objectives:

• Understand the structure, organization and contents of the Abbreviated Injury Scale
• Abstract injury data
• Rule out information that is not codeable
• Distinguish between injuries and outcomes
• Apply injury coding rules and guidelines specific to each body region
• Apply rules for calculating the Injury Severity Score (ISS) for multiple body region injuries

Accreditation:
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) has approved this program for 14.28 Continuing Education
Contact Hours. American Health Information Management Association approved this course for 14
Continuing Education Credits for use in fulfilling their continuing education requirements.

Fees:
MTC Member: $150 per participant
Fee includes AAAM course fee/materials, continental breakfast and lunch both days.

Registration Confirmation:
Confirmation of enrollment provided by phone, mail or e-mail (provide e-mail address)
Typical Schedule of Events for both days (times are approximate until we get the final agenda)
Monday, Apr 27
7:30-8:00 am Registration
8:00 am Introduction, Course Materials, Review of Agenda
8:05 am Class Introduction
8:20 am Topics for Presentation and Discussion
 Introduction to the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
 The AIS: Its Structure, Organization and Contents
 Multiple Injuries and the Injury Severity Score (ISS)
 Injuries and Severity Coding
9:45am --Break—
10:00am External ISS Body Region
 Region Specific rules and guidelines
 Dictionary exercise
 Group Exercise: abstracting and coding a chart
11:15 am Face ISS Body Region
 Region Specific rules and guidelines
 Dictionary exercise
 Cases
12:00 pm --Lunch—
12:45 pm Face ISS body Region (continued)
1:15 pm Chest ISS Body Region
 Region Specific rules and guidelines
 Dictionary exercise
 Cases
3:00 pm --Break—
3:15 pm Abdomen ISS Body Region
 Region specific rules and guideline
 Dictionary exercise
 Cases
5:00 pm --Adjourn-- Homework
Tuesday, Apr. 28
8:00 am Head/Neck ISS Body Region
 Region specific rules and guideline
 Dictionary exercise
 Cases
10:00 am --Break—
10:20 am Spine Injuries
 Region specific rules and guideline
 Dictionary exercise
 Cases
11:15 am Extremities ISS Body Region
Region specific rules and guideline
 Dictionary exercise
 Cases
12:00 pm --Lunch—
12:45 pm Extremities ISS Body Region (Continued)
1:00 pm Pre-Quiz Review
1:15 pm Multiple Body Region Injuries
 Cases
2:45 pm --Break—
2:30 pm Multiple Body Region Injuries (Continued)
3:00 pm POST COURSE QUIZ
3:45 pm Course Summary and Evaluations
4:00 pm --Adjourn--

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