The heart is divided into four main areas, or chambers â two upper chambers (called the left and right atrium) and two lower chambers (called the left and right ventricle). There are four valves that control the flow of blood through your heart.he heart is divided into four main areas, or chambers â two upper chambers (called the left and right atrium) and two lower chambers (called the left and right ventricle). There are four valves that control the flow of blood through your heart.
The newly approved Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) pain management standards present an important opportunity for widespread and sustainable improvement in pain assessment and management. Unrelieved pain is a major, yet avoidable, public health problem.
These codes were created because ICD-9-CM did not have specific codes for encounters for pain management or for these specific types of pain. In addition to specific codes for post-thoracotomy pain and postoperative pain, there is a specific code for neoplasm-related pain (338.3). Generalized pain is coded to 780.96.