Endocarditis, infective, acute or subacute
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | Endocarditis, infective, acute or subacute |
| ICD10 code: | I33.0 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Endocarditis |
| 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
- Combine this with the bug
- Use this code only for native valve endocarditis that is acute or subacute.
- For native valve endocarditis that is chronic, instead use Heart valvular disorder, valve NOS
- For prosthetic valve endocarditis (whether acute, subacute, or chronic), instead use Iatrogenic, infection, heart valve prosthesis (incl prosthetic valve endocarditis)
- Template:Discussion I am pasting the definition of iatrogenic here:
- "i·at·ro·gen·ic īˌatrəˈjenik/adjective: iatrogenic: relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment."
- If a patient is injecting themselves with illicit drugs intravenously and their prosthetic valve subsequently becomes infected, I do not think the physician or medical system should be attributed with the blame for that infection. The word iatrogenic implies the cause to be from a medical treatment. I agree that this code could be used in some cases if the endocarditis is caused by a line infection, etc. However in the above example, I think we should have a different code to use. This is my opinion.--LKolesar 13:07, 2018 August 29 (CDT)
- Identify WHICH valve is involved by combining this code with one (or more) of the following:
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- Iatrogenic, infection, heart valve prosthesis (incl prosthetic valve endocarditis)
- Mitral valve disorder, NOS
- Aortic valve disorder, NOS
- Tricuspid valve disorder, NOS
- Pulmonary valve disorder, NOS
- Heart valvular disorder, valve NOS
- Endocarditis, noninfectious, acute or subacute
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
- Mitral valve disorder, NOS
- Aortic valve disorder, NOS
- Tricuspid valve disorder, NOS
- Pulmonary valve disorder, NOS
Infections
Infections in ICD10 have combined coding requirements for some of their pathogens. Any that have antibiotic resistances would store those as Combined ICD10 codes as well. If the infection is acquired in the hospital, see Nosocomial infection, NOS. See Lab and culture reports for confirmation and details about tests. See Infections in ICD10 for more general info.
Possible Simultaneous Presence of Multiple Different Types of Infection in a Single Site
- This refers to the situation where there may be simultaneous infection with multiple types of organisms -- e.g. 2 of bacteria, virus, fungus. While a classic example is a proven viral pneumonia (e.g. influenza) with a suspected/possible bacterial pneumonia superimposed, this kind of thing can occur in places other than the lungs, e.g. meningitis.
- The "signature" of this is typically the patient being treated simultaneously with antimicrobial agents for multiple types of organisms. BUT don't confuse this with there being infections at DIFFERENT body sites.
- As per our usual practice, we will consider a diagnosis as present if the clinical team thinks it's present and are treating it, with the exception that the team initially treated for the possible 2nd type of infection but then decided it likely was NOT present and stopped those agents.
- And remember that Infectious organism, unknown is used when the the specific organism is unknown (this could be not knowing the TYPE of organism, or suspecting the type but not having identified the specific organism of that type), while when the organism has been identified but it's not in our bug list, THEN use Bacteria, NOS, Virus, NOS or Fungus or yeast, NOS.
Attribution of infections
- Put in specific valve affected eg one of
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