AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2006 Issue 4; VOLUMES 1 AND 2 NEW/REVISED CODES

SIRS, Sepsis, Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Effective October 1, 2006, further revisions have been made to subcategory 995.9, Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in order to facilitate the correct use of the severe sepsis codes so that accurate and complete data on this serious condition can be collected. The note to “code first underlying systemic infection” no longer applies to the entire subcategory 995.9. Now it only applies to the codes that relate to an infectious process, specifically codes 995.91 and 995.92. Please note that the sequencing of the systemic infection before subcategory 995.9 has...

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