T79 - Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified
Excludes 2:
-acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
-complications occurring during or following medical procedures (T80-T88)
-complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)
-newborn respiratory distress syndrome P22.0)
sevenChrNote:
-The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T79
sevenChrDef:
A - initial encounter
D - subsequent encounter
S - sequela
T79.0 - Air embolism (traumatic)
T79.1 - Fat embolism (traumatic)
T79.2 - Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seroma
T79.4 - Traumatic shock
T79.5 - Traumatic anuria
T79.6 - Traumatic ischemia of muscle
T79.7 - Traumatic subcutaneous emphysema
T79.A - Traumatic compartment syndrome
T79.A0 - Compartment syndrome, unspecified
T79.A1 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of upper extremity
T79.A11 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of right upper extremity
T79.A12 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of left upper extremity
T79.A19 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of unspecified upper extremity
T79.A2 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of lower extremity
T79.A21 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of right lower extremity
T79.A22 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of left lower extremity
T79.A29 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of unspecified lower extremity
T79.A3 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of abdomen
T79.A9 - Traumatic compartment syndrome of other sites
T79.8 - Other early complications of trauma
T79.9 - Unspecified early complication of trauma