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== Additional Info == | == Additional Info == | ||
* Even slow bleeding reduces the amount of iron in the body, so that the bone marrow cannot keep up in the production of new red blood cells. Sudden excess bleeding drastically reduces the number of red cells so that the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood can be drastically reduced. | |||
* Make a distinction between chronic and acute blood loss. Slow chronic bleeding can be from uterine or colon cancers, from chronic use of NSAIDS, etc. Acute blood loss is from GI bleeds, surgery or trauma for example. | |||
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||
Revision as of 12:21, 2017 December 15
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | Anemia, due to hemorrhage (blood loss anemia) |
| ICD10 code: | D62 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | none assigned |
| Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
| APACHE Como Component: | none |
| APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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| External ICD10 Documentation | |
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Additional Info
- Even slow bleeding reduces the amount of iron in the body, so that the bone marrow cannot keep up in the production of new red blood cells. Sudden excess bleeding drastically reduces the number of red cells so that the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood can be drastically reduced.
- Make a distinction between chronic and acute blood loss. Slow chronic bleeding can be from uterine or colon cancers, from chronic use of NSAIDS, etc. Acute blood loss is from GI bleeds, surgery or trauma for example.
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
- combine with cause of bleeding. Some examples include trauma, surgery, GI bleed, cancers, etc.
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