Other sepsis - A41
Excludes1: It indicates that the conditions described by two codes cannot occur together in the same patient. These codes are mutually exclusive.
Type 1 Excludes:
- bacteremia NOS (R78.81)
- neonatal (P36.-)
- puerperal sepsis (O85)
- streptococcal sepsis (A40.-)
Excludes2: This note means that the conditions described by two codes are not usually associated with each other but can sometimes occur together.
Type 2 Excludes:
- sepsis (due to) (in) actinomycotic (A42.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) anthrax (A22.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) candidal (B37.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) Erysipelothrix (A26.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) extraintestinal yersiniosis (A28.2)
- sepsis (due to) (in) gonococcal (A54.86)
- sepsis (due to) (in) herpesviral (B00.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) listerial (A32.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) melioidosis (A24.1)
- sepsis (due to) (in) meningococcal (A39.2-A39.4)
- sepsis (due to) (in) plague (A20.7)
- sepsis (due to) (in) tularemia (A21.7)
- toxic shock syndrome (A48.3)
Code First: This note advises that another code should be sequenced as the principal diagnosis before the code with this note.
Category codeFirst:
- postprocedural sepsis (T81.4-)
- sepsis during labor (O75.3)
- sepsis following abortion, ectopic or molar pregnancy (O03-O07, O08.0)
- sepsis following immunization (T88.0)
- sepsis following infusion, transfusion or therapeutic injection (T80.2-)
These ranges represents subcategories of Other sepsis. The "A41" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad category.
Codes:
- A41.0 - Sepsis due to Staphylococcus aureus
- A41.01 - Sepsis due to Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
- A41.02 - Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- A41.1 - Sepsis due to other specified staphylococcus
- A41.2 - Sepsis due to unspecified staphylococcus
- A41.3 - Sepsis due to Hemophilus influenzae
- A41.4 - Sepsis due to anaerobes
- A41.5 - Sepsis due to other Gram-negative organisms
- A41.50 - Gram-negative sepsis, unspecified
- A41.51 - Sepsis due to Escherichia coli [E. coli]
- A41.52 - Sepsis due to Pseudomonas
- A41.53 - Sepsis due to Serratia
- A41.54 - Sepsis due to Acinetobacter baumannii
- A41.59 - Other Gram-negative sepsis
- A41.8 - Other specified sepsis
- A41.81 - Sepsis due to Enterococcus
- A41.89 - Other specified sepsis
- A41.9 - Sepsis, unspecified organism