Injury Resulting from Operations of War

Why This Topic Matters

Accurate capture of external cause information can support injury surveillance, reporting, and public health analysis for military and civilian cases linked to war operations. This update changes how related circumstances are categorized and documented within ICD-9-CM.

Article Sections

1. Overview and effective date

   Introduces the scope of the ICD-9-CM update and the effective date for the category expansion.

2. Category revision and revised includes note

   Summarizes the overall expansion of the external cause category and the populations and circumstances addressed in the revised includes guidance.

3. Fire and conflagrations

   Covers the war-operation subcategory related to fire and related revisions, additions, and exclusions.

4. Bullets, fragments, and improvised explosive devices

   Addresses the subcategory for bullets and fragments, including updates tied to munitions and explosive-device-related circumstances.

5. Explosion of marine weapons

   Summarizes updates for marine-weapon explosion circumstances and the related code revisions.

6. Other explosion

   Reviews the broader explosion subcategory, including revised notes and additions for explosion-related war operations.

7. Destruction of aircraft

   Covers war-operation injuries involving aircraft destruction and the related additions and revisions.

8. Other and unspecified forms of conventional warfare

   Addresses conventional warfare injury circumstances that do not fit the more specific subcategories.

9. Nuclear weapons

   Summarizes the nuclear-weapon subcategory and associated revisions, additions, and exclusions.

10. Other forms of unconventional warfare

    Covers the unconventional warfare category and the added unspecified WMD-related code.

11. After cessation of hostilities

    Describes the subcategory for injuries occurring after hostilities have ended and the related additions.