[Verified Answer]: A 68-year-old female was admitted to the…

A 68-year-old female was admitted to the hospital from a local nursing home because she has two large pressure ulcers on her sacrum and right hip with the sacral ulcer now bleeding. Lab results indicated severe anemia, and the patient received one non autologous packed red blood cell transfusion percutaneously through a peripheral vein for her documented acute blood loss anemia. The wound care physician and nurses treated her massive stage 3 sacral pressure ulcer and stage two right hip pressure ulcer. The patient was also treated for her well controlled type 2 diabetes and hypertension. The patient also has chronic back pai radiculopathy from lumbar spinal osteoarthritis. Given the size of the pressure ulcers, the intensive care necessary to manage the ulcers, her chronic back pain, and subsequent immobility, a surgical consultation was obtained to consider creating a diverting colostomy to alleviate her fecal incontinence that she had for the past several months that failed to respond medical management. The fecal incontinence had done damage to her skin and affected her skin ulcers. After completion of the red blood cell peripheral transfusion she was stable enough for permanent laparoscopic colostomy procedure of the descending to cutaneous: there were no postoperative complications and after two days the patient was transferred to the skilled nursing facility for recover from surgery and continued wound care. There are 2 PCS codes*** ICD-10-PCS: PROCEDURE: ROOT OPERATION: