Template:ICD10 Guideline Electrolytes

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Electrolyte disturbance

The paradigm for coding electrolyte disturbance diagnoses has 2 aspects, which could overlap:

• (1) Relatively extreme numerical thresholds for specific disturbances, to be coded without reference to presence or absence of symptoms. The threshold values are listed on the page for each of the specific ICD10 codes for electrolyte disturbances.
• (2) If a patient has symptomatic disturbance, the new rule is to code the disturbance(s) (e.g. Coma NOS, Rhabdomyolysis, Ventricular fibrillation), and link that diagnosis to Electrolyte disorder, NOS

Log of previous electrolyte coding criteria

Reverse chronological changes: 2025-04-09 change to current definitions retired Hypoalbuminemia, severe altered the names of all these entities to remove the words "severe" and/or "symptomatic"; and changed the serum phosphate disturbance from including both low and high values, to name them Hypophosphatemia and to only now include low values (since hyperphosphatemia is almost never a clinically important problem). 2025-02-27 - switched to just a single, more extreme numerical threshold irrespective of symptoms. 2019-04-09 - As decided 2019-03-06 we introduced clear criteria when these should be coded; these were set up as "double threshold" values -- i.e. more extreme numerical thresholds without symptoms attributable to the disturbance, and less extreme threshold in those with symptoms 2019-01-01 beginning of ICD10 collection based diagnostic coding of electrolyte disturbances including Hypoalbuminemia, severe