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=== Traumas and their Mechanisms === | === Traumas and their Mechanisms === | ||
* | *In ICD10, traumas need to be combined with separate mechanism codes to fully explain the situation. | ||
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*Here are lists of the codes for "mechanical" injuries to various body parts: | |||
** some codes are always traumatic and always need a mechanism: | |||
{{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Trauma}} | {{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Trauma}} | ||
* | :* Other codes may or may not be of a traumatic nature; these also qualify to be coded with trauma mechanisms listed below: | ||
{{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Category:Potential trauma}} | {{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Category:Potential trauma}} | ||
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*Here is a list of the external mechanism or agent that caused the trauma: | |||
{{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Mechanism}} | {{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Mechanism}} | ||
Revision as of 12:24, 2019 September 11
Explanation of trauma and mechanism co-coding.
Traumas and their Mechanisms
- In ICD10, traumas need to be combined with separate mechanism codes to fully explain the situation.
- Here are lists of the codes for "mechanical" injuries to various body parts:
- some codes are always traumatic and always need a mechanism:
- Other codes may or may not be of a traumatic nature; these also qualify to be coded with trauma mechanisms listed below:
Category:Potential trauma codes: |
- Here is a list of the external mechanism or agent that caused the trauma:
Regarding Multiple Trauma
- When a person has multiple body areas traumatized, code Multiple trauma
- When using Multiple trauma also code the individual things traumatized, e.g. leg, arm, head, etc.
- Code Multiple trauma and all the individual things traumatized as Combined ICD10 codes
- And in this case, assuming that they all have the same mechanism of injury (e.g. Mechanism of injury: motorcyclist), then you'd also code that Mechanism code as the same Combined ICD10 codes.
- If the multiple trauma is the primary admit diagnosis, then among this group of linked ICD10 codes, the Primary Admit Diagnosis would be either the Multiple trauma or the "worst" thing injured, e.g. Brain injury, diffuse (TBI), injury/trauma