This assignment is for someone who has experience in the medical field.

Read the article below and explain why this resource would be beneficial to a Health Information Technician also known as a coder. The article is below.

Some Facts about Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA)

An aneurysm is an abnormal “bulging” of a vessel,
usually due to a weakness or thinning of the vessel wall at that
location, caused by congenital or acquired weakness of the vessel wall.
Patients may not have symptoms during the development and enlargement of
an aortic aneurysm, but when an aneurysm becomes large enough, it may
rupture and cause sudden severe pain. Shock and death follow shortly
thereafter, as the patient bleeds freely from the ruptured aneurysm into
the abdominal cavity. Emergent surgical treatment of ruptured abdominal
aortic aneurysms will save approximately 50% of these patients.

Since emergent treatment of ruptured aneurysms
carries a very high morbidity and mortality rate, the obvious solution
is to treat them electively before rupture. In the United States alone,
there are over 200,000 new diagnoses of aortic aneurysm per year, and
50,000 of these patients undergo elective surgical treatment because the
aneurysms are large enough (typically >4.5 cm diameter) to represent
a threat of rupture. Elective surgery carries a vastly lower
perioperative morbidity and mortality than emergent surgery.

The traditional method of treating aortic aneurysms
is by open surgery directly at the aneurysm site. The first step is a
large abdominal or retroperitoneal incision followed by exposure of the
aneurysm plus short regions of normal proximal and distal aorta. Aortic
blood flow is stopped temporarily with large vascular clamps, and the
aneurysm sac is cut open longitudinally. Working from within the
aneurysm, a tubular synthetic graft is sutured to the normal diameter
aorta at each end. The vascular clamps are removed, and any leaks are
treated by placing additional sutures. The aneurysm sac is then wrapped
around the new graft, and the abdomen is closed. If the aortic aneurysm
extends distally into the iliac arteries a similar procedure is
followed, but the surgeon chooses a bifurcated graft with one leg sewn
to each of the iliac arteries beyond the regions of aneurysmal
enlargement.

Existing CPT codes describe open treatment of aortic
aneurysms and identify different locations for the repair. These codes
are specific and selection is based on how far the aneurysm extends
proximally and distally. For example the most common aortic aneurysm
repair, 35081, Direct repair of aneurysm, false aneurysm, or excision (partial or total) and graft insertion, with or without patch graft; for aneurysm, false aneurysm, and associated occlusive disease, abdominal aorta, is used for an aneurysm that starts below the renal artery origins and ends above the aortic bifurcation. Code 35091, Direct repair of aneurysm, false aneurysm, or excision (partial or total) and graft insertion, with or without patch graft; for aneurysm, false aneurysm, and associated occlusive disease, abdominal aorta involving visceral vessels (mesenteric, celiac, renal),
is used to report a more complex aortic aneurysm that extends further
upwards and involves the very large upper abdominal aortic branches.