Assignment Help| 75-year-old female was found in her home
1) A 75-year-old female was found in her home by her daughter with a bleeding head injury. Upon arriving at the ER, examination revealed a scalp laceration at the superior occiput. The laceration was approximately 8.0 cm and required complex repair.
2)The patient is a 59-year-old woman who tripped over a brick. As she tried to break her fall, she somehow cut her left hand. She has a laceration at the base of the fifth finger on the palm side, but no other injuries. The physician repaired a 2.5 cm simple laceration of her left hand using 5-0 nylon sutures.
3)A physician treated a patient for multiple wounds of the right forearm, hand, and knee. The physician sutured the following: simple repair, 2.5 cm forearm; intermediate repair, 1.5 cm hand; simple repair, 2.0 cm knee.
4)A physician performs electrosurgical fulguration to remove a 2.0-cm squamous cell carcinoma of the hand.
5)A surgeon excised a 6.0-cm benign soft tumor of the back that extended beyond the subcutaneous layer of skin and invaded the subfascia.
6)The patient underwent a posterolateral fusion of L4-L5 with local bone graft (local = autograft).
7)A physician performed an excision of malignant melanoma from the patient’s arm (3.0 x 1.5 cm, with 1.0-cm margins surrounding the lesion)
8)Under ultrasound guidance, the surgeon performed a fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy of the epididymis, first lesion.
9)The patient was treated in the ED for a deep 7.0-cm wound of the back. A routine cleansing and deep nonmuscle layer closure was required.
10)A surgeon performed a full-thickness skin graft, harvesting skin from the buttocks and grafting it to the chest to cover the 2 cm x 4 cm defect.
11)A physician performed a wide resection of a 3.0 cm malignant skin lesion of the left leg. The defect required an adjacent tissue transfer measuring 15 sq cm (Skin graft = Adjacent tissue transfer).
12)A surgeon performs initial debridement and dressing of partial-thickness burn, small (eg, less than 5% of total body surface area).
13)A patient was diagnosed with a right ring trigger finger. The physician treated the patient by injecting the tendon sheath with Depo-Medrol and lidocaine.
14)After local anesthesia was administered a 3-mm punch biopsy was used to obtain a biopsy of the scalp skin lesion to rule out malignancy.