Sepsis (SIRS due to infection, without acute organ failure)
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ICD10 Diagnosis | |
Dx: | Sepsis (SIRS due to infection, without acute organ failure) |
ICD10 code: | R65.0 |
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | none assigned |
Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
APACHE Como Component: | none |
APACHE Acute Component: | 2019-0: Sepsis |
Start Date: | |
Stop Date: | |
External ICD10 Documentation |
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Additional Info
- The current ICD-10 codings of sepsis and its subsets is based on the SEPSIS-2 criteria from 2001. In 2017 the SEPSIS-2 criteria came out but ICD-10 doesn't reflect that yet.
- If the sepsis is accompanied by organ failure, or shock, then this is NOT the correct code.
- SIRS is defined as 2 or more of the following things:
- Fever of more than 38°C (100.4°F) or less than 36°C (96.8°F)
- Heart rate of more than 90 beats per minute
- Respiratory rate of more than 20 breaths per minute or arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO 2) of less than 32 mm Hg
- Abnormal white blood cell count (>12,000/µL or <4,000/µL or >10% immature [band] forms)
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- Sepsis (SIRS due to infection, without acute organ failure)
- Severe sepsis*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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