Organ transplant candidate (waiting for organ)

ICD10 Diagnosis
Dx:	Organ transplant candidate (waiting for organ)
ICD10 code:	Z76.80
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
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This diagnosis is a part of ICD10 collection.

Additional Info

This code indicates that the patient is awaiting an organ transplant
It may be used:
- For any patient who is currently a candidate for transplantation but not expected to receive one during this admission (e.g. admitted for something else).
- As an Admit Diagnosis for when the patient is admitted for the transplant
  - In this regard, you should also link to this the code for the reason for the organ failure that requires the transplant -- with Organ transplant candidate (waiting for organ) as the main admit diagnosis
  - And if it's true, you could also link it to Preparatory care (incl preop optimization)

Transplant codes:

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