Poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances - T36-T50
Sections in ICD-10-CM facilitate the systematic organization of medical information for accurate and standardized healthcare practices.
Section Includes:
- adverse effect of correct substance properly administered
- poisoning by overdose of substance
- poisoning by wrong substance given or taken in error
- underdosing by (inadvertently) (deliberately) taking less substance than prescribed or instructed
Use Additional Code: This note indicates that an additional code should be used in conjunction with the primary code "T36-T50" to provide a complete picture of the patient's condition or to capture associated factors.
Use Additional:
- code(s) to specify:
- manifestations of poisoning
- underdosing or failure in dosage during medical and surgical care (Y63.6, Y63.8-Y63.9)
- underdosing of medication regimen (Z91.12-, Z91.13-)
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:
- toxic reaction to local anesthesia in pregnancy (O29.3-)
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:
- abuse and dependence of psychoactive substances (F10-F19)
- abuse of non-dependence-producing substances (F55.-)
- immunodeficiency due to drugs (D84.821)
- drug reaction and poisoning affecting newborn (P00-P96)
- pathological drug intoxication (inebriation) (F10-F19)
Code First: This note advises that another code should be sequenced as the principal diagnosis before the code with this note.
Section codeFirst:
- , for adverse effects, the nature of the adverse effect, such as:
- adverse effect NOS (T88.7)
- aspirin gastritis (K29.-)
- blood disorders (D56-D76)
- contact dermatitis (L23-L25)
- dermatitis due to substances taken internally (L27.-)
- nephropathy (N14.0-N14.2)
These ranges represents Categories of Poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances. The "T36-T50" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad section.
Codes:
- T36 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of systemic antibiotics
- T37 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of other systemic anti-infectives and antiparasitics
- T38 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of hormones and their synthetic substitutes and antagonists, not elsewhere classified
- T39 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of nonopioid analgesics, antipyretics and antirheumatics
- T40 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens]
- T41 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of anesthetics and therapeutic gases
- T42 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of antiepileptic, sedative- hypnotic and antiparkinsonism drugs
- T43 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of psychotropic drugs, not elsewhere classified
- T44 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of drugs primarily affecting the autonomic nervous system
- T45 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of primarily systemic and hematological agents, not elsewhere classified
- T46 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of agents primarily affecting the cardiovascular system
- T47 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of agents primarily affecting the gastrointestinal system
- T48 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of agents primarily acting on smooth and skeletal muscles and the respiratory system
- T49 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of topical agents primarily affecting skin and mucous membrane and by ophthalmological, otorhinorlaryngological and dental drugs
- T50 - Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of diuretics and other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances