T71.9XXA Asphyxiation due to unspecified cause, initial encounter
Instructional Notes:
T71.9XXA Description: Asphyxiation due to unspecified cause, initial encounter ↓
T71.9 Description: 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
↓
T71 Description: Asphyxiation Exclude1:
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.-)
Inclusion Term:
Mechanical suffocation
Traumatic suffocation
↓
T66-T78 Description: Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78) ↓
S00-T88 Description: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes Exclude2:
birth trauma (P10-P15)
obstetric trauma (O70-O71)
Notes:
Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
Use Additional Code:
code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)