ICD-10 CM Code T71.9
T71.9
Asphyxiation due to unspecified cause
Inclusion Term
- Suffocation (by strangulation) due to unspecified cause
- Suffocation NOS
- Systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air due to unspecified cause
- Systemic oxygen deficiency due to mechanical threat to breathing due to unspecified cause
- Traumatic asphyxia NOS
- Mechanical suffocation
- Traumatic suffocation
Excludes Type 1
- acute respiratory distress (syndrome) (J80)
- anoxia due to high altitude (T70.2)
- asphyxia NOS (R09.01)
- asphyxia from carbon monoxide (T58.-)
- asphyxia from inhalation of food or foreign body (T17.-)
- asphyxia from other gases, fumes and vapors (T59.-)
- respiratory distress (syndrome) in newborn (P22.-)
7th Character
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T71
- A - initial encounter
- D - subsequent encounter
- S - sequela
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