Chapter 19

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

Note:
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
code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
Excludes 1:
birth trauma (P10-P15)
obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

This chapter contains the following blocks:

S00-S09 Injuries to the head (S00-S09)
S10-S19 Injuries to the neck (S10-S19)
S20-S29 Injuries to the thorax (S20-S29)
S30-S39 Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals (S30-S39)
S40-S49 Injuries to the shoulder and upper arm (S40-S49)
S50-S59 Injuries to the elbow and forearm (S50-S59)
S60-S69 Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers (S60-S69)
S70-S79 Injuries to the hip and thigh (S70-S79)
S80-S89 Injuries to the knee and lower leg (S80-S89)
S90-S99 Injuries to the ankle and foot (S90-S99)
T07-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (T07-T88)
T07 Injuries involving multiple body regions (T07)
T14 Injury of unspecified body region (T14)
T15-T19 Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)
T20-T32 Burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
T20-T25 Burns and corrosions of external body surface, specified by site (T20-T25)
T26-T28 Burns and corrosions confined to eye and internal organs (T26-T28)
T30-T32 Burns and corrosions of multiple and unspecified body regions (T30-T32)
T33-T34 Frostbite (T33-T34)
T36-T50 Poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances (T36-T50)
T51-T65 Toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)
T66-T78 Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)
T79 Certain early complications of trauma (T79)
T80-T88 Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88)

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