Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes - S00-T88
Injury, Poisoning, and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes - This chapter includes codes for injuries, poisonings, and other consequences of external events, such as accidents and falls.
Chapter notes often provide a brief overview or description of the conditions and diseases covered within that specific chapter. This helps users understand the scope and content of the chapter.
Chapter Notes:
- 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: This note indicates that an additional code should be used in conjunction with the primary code "S" to provide a complete picture of the patient's condition or to capture associated factors.
Use Additional:
- code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
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:
- birth trauma (P10-P15)
- obstetric trauma (O70-O71)
These ranges represents sections of Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes. The "S" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad chapter.
Codes:
- S00-S09 - Injuries to the head
- S10-S19 - Injuries to the neck
- S20-S29 - Injuries to the thorax
- S30-S39 - Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals
- S40-S49 - Injuries to the shoulder and upper arm
- S50-S59 - Injuries to the elbow and forearm
- S60-S69 - Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers
- S70-S79 - Injuries to the hip and thigh
- S80-S89 - Injuries to the knee and lower leg
- S90-S99 - Injuries to the ankle and foot
- T07 - Injuries involving multiple body regions
- T14 - Injury of unspecified body region
- T15-T19 - Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice
- T20-T25 - Burns and corrosions of external body surface, specified by site
- T26-T28 - Burns and corrosions confined to eye and internal organs
- T30-T32 - Burns and corrosions of multiple and unspecified body regions
- T33-T34 - Frostbite
- T36-T50 - Poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances
- T51-T65 - Toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source
- T66-T78 - Other and unspecified effects of external causes
- T79 - Certain early complications of trauma
- T80-T88 - Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified