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**On the other hand, the most clearcut kind of clinical evidence for secondary infection of a noninfectious aspiration pneumonitis is when the person starts to get better, and then after several days starts to get worse again. | **On the other hand, the most clearcut kind of clinical evidence for secondary infection of a noninfectious aspiration pneumonitis is when the person starts to get better, and then after several days starts to get worse again. | ||
**The hardest situation in which to determine if a secondary infection has occurred, and whether to start antibiotics, is when the signs of lung inflammation (infiltrate, fever, leukocytosis) doesn't improves and remains bad or worsens. | **The hardest situation in which to determine if a secondary infection has occurred, and whether to start antibiotics, is when the signs of lung inflammation (infiltrate, fever, leukocytosis) doesn't improves and remains bad or worsens. | ||
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||
{{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Pneumonia}} | {{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Pneumonia}} | ||
*[[Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveoliltis), NOS]] | *[[Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveoliltis), NOS]] | ||
*[[Radiation pneumonitis (acute or chronic)]] | *[[Radiation pneumonitis (acute or chronic)]] | ||