SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)

ICD10 Diagnosis
Dx:	SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
ICD10 code:	U04
Pre-ICD10 counterpart:	none assigned
Charlson/ALERT Scale:	none
APACHE Como Component:	none
APACHE Acute Component:	none
Start Date:
Stop Date:
Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements):	No results
External ICD10 Documentation	ICD-10 CM Wikipedia ICD-10 Wikipedia WHO ICD10 documentation ICD10data.com

This diagnosis is a part of ICD10 collection.

Additional Info

This code is for a specific infection, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which is caused by the SARS Coronavirus. Thus, there is no need to code a pathogen with this code.
SARS
Coronavirus

This is not a standard ICD10 code but a ICD10 Custom code. We added it for the following reason: This is a special purpose code currently assigned by the WHO for SARS. See Non-standard ICD10 Diagnoses for other codes like this.

Pneumonia codes:

if applicable code:

Skin	Trauma	Renal/urinary	Infectious disease
ENT	Testing	Cardiovascular	Hereditary/congenital
Eye	Mechanism	Neoplastic	Heme/immunology
Misc	Reproductive	Gastrointestinal	Musculoskeletal/soft tissue
Psych	Respiratory	Poisoning
Neuro	Symptom/Sign	Endocrine disorder

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