Denial Codes. The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities [DODD] submits all I/O, LV, and SELF. waiver claims to the Ohio Department of Medicaid [ODM] for final approval or denial through. the Medicaid Information Technology System [MITS]. Any claim denied by ODM cannot be paid.
Afterload can be thought of as the load that the heart must eject blood against. In simple terms, the afterload is closely related to the aortic pressure. (P, ventricular pressure; r, ventricular radius; h, wall thickness).
Definition of Afterload. The afterload for any contracting muscle is the. total force that opposes shortening, minus the stretch-. ing force that existed prior to contraction. For car-. diac muscle, the afterload is the force against which.