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

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

 Type 1 Excludes

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

 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