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)
Certain early complications of trauma (T79)
T79
Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified[+]
Excludes 2:
acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80) complications occurring during or following medical procedures (T80-T88) complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88) newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T79 A - initial encounter D - subsequent encounter S - sequela
air embolism complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.2) air embolism complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O88.0) air embolism following infusion, transfusion, and therapeutic injection (T80.0) air embolism following procedure NEC (T81.7-)
Traumatic shock Shock (immediate) (delayed) following injury
Excludes 1:
anaphylactic shock due to adverse food reaction (T78.0-) anaphylactic shock due to correct medicinal substance properly administered (T88.6) anaphylactic shock due to serum (T80.5-) anaphylactic shock NOS (T78.2) electric shock (T75.4) nontraumatic shock NEC (R57.-) obstetric shock (O75.1) postprocedural shock (T81.1-) septic shock (R65.21) shock complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.3) shock due to anesthesia (T88.2) shock due to lightning (T75.01) shock NOS (R57.9)