Spinal cord compression

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ICD10 Diagnosis
Dx: Spinal cord compression
ICD10 code: G95.2
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: Spinal Compression, Cervical Myelopathy
Charlson/ALERT Scale: none
APACHE Como Component: none
APACHE Acute Component: none
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    • 2999-12-31
    • G95.2
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Additional Info

  • I have the Spinal Compression code giving me an error that it needs a trauma mechanism. My patient has spinal cord compression from an (Intraspinal abscessepidural abscess), so there is no trauma involved. I think someone else has asked you about it before. On the wiki that code is in the trauma category, but I don’t want to move it out of there because sometimes it is due to trauma and I don’t want to cause other problems. Can you please look into this, because I can’t send the file. Joanna Velasco May 27.19
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