Suture removal is generally included in the global surgical package if the removal is done by the physician who performed the surgery. However, the global surgical package excludes services of other physicians and would therefore exclude suture removal in this case. Incidentally, there is a diagnosis code that covers suture removal: V58.3, âAttention to surgical dressings and sutures,â includes change of dressings and removal of sutures.
I've seen the estimate range from 50,000 to 100,000 miles. Go to: http://www.sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html and click on vessels. You'll see it stated that there are over 60,000 miles (97,000 kilometers) of blood vessels in a child's body and close to 100,000 miles (161,000 kilometers) in an adult's. The circumference of the earth at the equator is 25,000 miles.
Best Answer: The heart, about the size of the human fist, pumps about five liters of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels each minute at rest. Since the average adult body contains about five liters of blood, nearly all of it passes through the heart each minute. The resting heart rate of most untrained humans is 60 to 80 beats per minute, and 55 to 75 milliliters of blood is pumped out of the heart with each beat (defined as the stroke volume).