kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Section

S00-T88

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

Hierarchy

  • S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
    • S00-S09 Injuries to the head (S00-S09)
    • S10-S19 Injuries to the neck (S10-S19)
    • S20-S29 Injuries to the thorax (S20-S29)
    • S30-S39 Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals (S30-S39)
    • S40-S49 Injuries to the shoulder and upper arm (S40-S49)
    • S50-S59 Injuries to the elbow and forearm (S50-S59)
    • S60-S69 Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers (S60-S69)
    • S70-S79 Injuries to the hip and thigh (S70-S79)
    • S80-S89 Injuries to the knee and lower leg (S80-S89)
    • S90-S99 Injuries to the ankle and foot (S90-S99)
    • T07 Unspecified multiple injuries
    • T07-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (T07-T88)
    • T14 Injury of unspecified body region
    • T15-T19 Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)
    • T20-T25 Burns and corrosions of external body surface, specified by site (T20-T25)
    • T20-T32 Burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
    • T26-T28 Burns and corrosions confined to eye and internal organs (T26-T28)
    • T30-T32 Burns and corrosions of multiple and unspecified body regions (T30-T32)
    • T33-T34 Frostbite (T33-T34)
    • T36-T50 Poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances (T36-T50)
    • T51-T65 Toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)
    • T66-T78 Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)
    • T79 Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified
    • T80-T88 Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88)

Notes

S00-T88

  • 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

S00-T88

  • code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
    • Z18 Retained foreign body fragments

Excludes 1

S00-T88

  • P10-P15 Birth trauma (P10-P15)
  • obstetric trauma (O70-O71)