kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Section

T79

Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified

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)
      • T79.1 Fat embolism (traumatic)
      • T79.2 Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seroma
      • T79.4 Traumatic shock
      • T79.5 Traumatic anuria
      • T79.6 Traumatic ischemia of muscle
      • T79.7 Traumatic subcutaneous emphysema
      • T79.8 Other early complications of trauma
      • T79.9 Unspecified early complication of trauma
      • T79.A Traumatic compartment syndrome

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

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