kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Code

T79.0XXA

initial encounter

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Hierarchy

  • S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
    • T79 Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified
      • T79.0 Air embolism (traumatic)

Long Title

T79.0XXA

  • Air embolism (traumatic) initial encounter

Notes

S00-T88

  • Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
  • The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.

Use Additional

S00-T88

  • code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
    • Z18 Retained foreign body fragments

Excludes 1

T79.0XXA

  • air embolism complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.2)
    • O08.2 Embolism following ectopic and molar pregnancy
  • air embolism complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O88.0)
    • O88.0 Obstetric air embolism
  • air embolism following infusion, transfusion, and therapeutic injection (T80.0)
    • T80.0 Air embolism following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
  • air embolism following procedure NEC (T81.7-)
    • T81.7 Vascular complications following a procedure, not elsewhere classified

T79.0

  • air embolism complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.2)
    • O08.2 Embolism following ectopic and molar pregnancy
  • air embolism complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O88.0)
    • O88.0 Obstetric air embolism
  • air embolism following infusion, transfusion, and therapeutic injection (T80.0)
    • T80.0 Air embolism following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
  • air embolism following procedure NEC (T81.7-)
    • T81.7 Vascular complications following a procedure, not elsewhere classified

S00-T88

  • P10-P15 Birth trauma (P10-P15)
  • obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

Excludes 2

T79

  • J80 Acute respiratory distress syndrome
  • complications occurring during or following medical procedures (T80-T88)
    • T80-T88 Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88)
  • complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)
    • T80-T88 Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88)
  • newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)
    • P22.0 Respiratory distress syndrome of newborn