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Explanation of trauma and mechanism co-coding.
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Traumas and their Mechanisms
- There are numerous codes for "mechanical" injuries to various body parts.
- You can recognize these codes because their names include one or another term such as: "injury/trauma" or "traumatic".
- What these have in common is that they are caused by an "external agent" -- such as being hit by a car, falling on your head, etc.
- For these codes, it is required that the injury be combined with the external mechanism of the injury:
- In some cases, the mechanism is actually iatrogenic, see Iatrogenic codes in ICD10.