Re: How do code a scab? ASAP Please

[Janice]

Scabs should be coded as a stage two if it is on a pressure area.  This is my understanding of it and if I am wrong I would like to be corrected as this is an area that has been confusing to me in the past. ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:58 PM Subject: Re: How do code a scab? ASAP Please In a message dated 4/1/04 7:10:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How or if is a scab coded on the MDS?  Someone asked me today & I wasn't sure of the answer.  Thanks all!!!!!  Same as eschar.  You can't see underneath it.  And it is nature's dressing for the wound, per our wound nurse.    Sherri