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**So, if the patient has a known infection AND/OR '''[[Severe sepsis]]''' OR '''[[Shock, septic]]''' you MUST code those. | **So, if the patient has a known infection AND/OR '''[[Severe sepsis]]''' OR '''[[Shock, septic]]''' you MUST code those. | ||
{{Discuss | who = Allan | question = Is this supposed to be used as new code for [[Septicemia]]? That is how it is being used.... Ttenbergen 10:29, 2018 June 29 (CDT)}} | {{Discuss | who = Allan | question = Is this supposed to be used as new code for [[Septicemia]]? That is how it is being used.... Ttenbergen 10:29, 2018 June 29 (CDT) | ||
*AG REPLY -- the word "septicemia" is and always has been confusing, if not completely meaningless. It has been used both to mean bugs in the blood (which is bacteremia), to mean toxic products of bugs in the blood (such as LPS or endotoxin which cause some of the clinical manifestations of sepsis/septic shock), and to mean sepsis or septic shock. So going forward we don't need or want a replacement for that vague entity. [[Bactermia]] is a clearcut entity, which means bacteria circulating in the blood, and not due to contaminated blood culture.}} | |||
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||