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)

Burns and corrosions of multiple and unspecified body regions (T30-T32)

T30 Burn and corrosion, body region unspecified [+]
T31 Burns classified according to extent of body surface involved [+]
Note: This category is to be used as the primary code only when the site of the burn is unspecified. It should be used as a supplementary code with categories T20-T25 when the site is specified.
T32 Corrosions classified according to extent of body surface involved [+]
Note: This category is to be used as the primary code only when the site of the corrosion is unspecified. It may be used as a supplementary code with categories T20-T25 when the site is specified.

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