Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified - T80-T88
Use Additional Code: This note indicates that an additional code should be used in conjunction with the primary code "T80-T88" to provide a complete picture of the patient's condition or to capture associated factors.
Use Additional:
- code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
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:
- any encounters with medical care for postprocedural conditions in which no complications are present, such as:
- artificial opening status (Z93.-)
- closure of external stoma (Z43.-)
- fitting and adjustment of external prosthetic device (Z44.-)
- burns and corrosions from local applications and irradiation (T20-T32)
- complications of surgical procedures during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- mechanical complication of respirator [ventilator] (J95.850)
- poisoning and toxic effects of drugs and chemicals (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4 or 6)
- postprocedural fever (R50.82)
- specified complications classified elsewhere, such as:
- cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture (G97.0)
- colostomy malfunction (K94.0-)
- disorders of fluid and electrolyte imbalance (E86-E87)
- functional disturbances following cardiac surgery (I97.0-I97.1)
- intraoperative and postprocedural complications of specified body systems (D78.-, E36.-, E89.-, G97.3-, G97.4, H59.3-, H59.-, H95.2-, H95.3, I97.4-, I97.5, J95.6-, J95.7, K91.6-, L76.-, M96.-, N99.-)
- ostomy complications (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
- postgastric surgery syndromes (K91.1)
- postlaminectomy syndrome NEC (M96.1)
- postmastectomy lymphedema syndrome (I97.2)
- postsurgical blind-loop syndrome (K91.2)
- ventilator associated pneumonia (J95.851)
These ranges represents Categories of Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified. The "T80-T88" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad section.
Codes:
- T80 - Complications following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
- T81 - Complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified
- T82 - Complications of cardiac and vascular prosthetic devices, implants and grafts
- T83 - Complications of genitourinary prosthetic devices, implants and grafts
- T84 - Complications of internal orthopedic prosthetic devices, implants and grafts
- T85 - Complications of other internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts
- T86 - Complications of transplanted organs and tissue
- T87 - Complications peculiar to reattachment and amputation
- T88 - Other complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified