Typically, the primary diagnosis and the principal diagnosis are the same diagnosis, but this is not necessarily always so. Principal diagnosis is defined as the condition, after study, which occasioned the admission to the hospital, according to theICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting.
UTC -8/-7, UTC -7/-6. Nevada is an arid state of the USA, lying between California and Utah. Most of the state is within the Great Basin, but parts of the northeast drain into the Snake River and the the southern portion is within the Mojave desert and the Colorado river drainage.
Although partly surrounded by high mountains that bear snow for several months of the year, and just 20 miles from the deep waters of Lake Mead, Las Vegas is built in a desert - it lies towards the northeastern corner of the Mojave Desert - and so has a suitably hot, dry, low humidity climate.