AAAM AIS 15 Course
Thursday, August 22, 2024 8:00 AM - Friday, August 23, 2024 5:00 PM (CDT)
Description
*The AAAM course is currently full; however, the Waitlist is available to those interested.*
The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS©) 2015 incorporates current medical terminology providing an internationally accepted tool for ranking injury severity. The AIS 15 course is divided into lectures and work sessions in which actual hospital charts are used for coding exercises.
This will be a live, virtual course.
Course modules include:
- Understand the structure, organization, and contents of the AIS
- Abstract injury data from medical charts
- 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
The course is designed for trauma nurses, coordinators, registrars, physicians, hospital records personnel, researchers, or engineers who are responsible for injury databases.
All NCTTRAC Member Organizations and their employees receive a 50% discounted registration price!
Cancellations WILL NOT be refunded after Wednesday, July 31st, 2024 at 11:59 PM.
Payment is due at the time of registration; NCTTRAC does not invoice facilities for payment. Limit 3 registrants per facility.
, TX 76011 United States
Clinical Education