Severe sepsis
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | Severe sepsis |
| ICD10 code: | R65.1 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Severe Sepsis |
| Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
| APACHE Como Component: | none |
| APACHE Acute Component: | 2019-0: Sepsis |
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| External ICD10 Documentation | |
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Additional Info
- Even though as of November 2017 ICD-10 has not yet been modified to reflect it, we are using the 2016 consensus definition of sepsis and septic shock (JAMA 315(8):801-10, 2016). These new definitions completely do away with talking about the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS). In the 2016 definitions we have just 2 subcategories:
- Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection -- NOTE this was the 2001 definition of "severe sepsis"
- Septic shock is a subset of sepsis in which profound circulatory, cellular and metabolic abnormalities are associated with a greater risk of mortality than with sepsis alone
- For these the cause is proven infection, OR presumed infection -- thus positive cultures are not required.
- Do not code this if the patient qualifies as having Shock, septic.
- The 2016 consensus group defined the ORGAN DYSFUNCTION as an acute CHANGE from patient's baseline total SOFA score by 2 or more points -- where the baseline SOFA score can be assumed to be 0 in patients not known to have preexisting organ dysfunction.
- go to: SOFA scoring:
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- Sepsis (SIRS due to infection, without acute organ failure)
- Shock, septic
- Puerperal (post-delivery) infections or sepsis
- Bacteremia, NOS AND Fungemia, NOS -- these are laboratory manifestations, and while it's OK to code them if present, if you do so you should also code the clinical manifestation (such as sepsis, etc).
| shock codes: |
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
- Also code the causative infection.
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