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[[Category: UPL]]
[[Category: UPL]]
[[Category: non pathogen subcodes]]

Revision as of 21:45, 2009 June 8

59 - Aspiration (early presentation, documented aspiration)

  • subcode 59, should be used only in conjunction with HAP and CAP
  • code HAP or CAP with a subcode of aspiration, if this is known, as the admission code.
  • if the patient subsequently has an organism, code this as a complication (eg. HAP with subcode the organism.)


Also see: Pneumonitis 2nd Chemical Aspiration