ICD-10-CM (2010)/CHAPTER 19

←Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

ICD-10-CM TABULAR LIST of DISEASES and INJURIES  (2010)  CHAPTER 19 - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98)

External causes of morbidity (V01-Y99)→

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98)

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

Excludes1: birth trauma (P10-P15)

obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

This chapter contains the following blocks:

S00-S09 Injuries to the head

S10-S19 Injuries to the neck

S20-S29 Injuries to the thorax

S30-S39 Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals

S40-S49 Injuries to the shoulder and upper arm

S50-S59 Injuries to the elbow and forearm

S60-S69 Injuries to the wrist and hand

S70-S79 Injuries to the hip and thigh

S80-S89 Injuries to the knee and lower leg

S90-S99 Injuries to the ankle and foot

T07 Unspecified multiple injuries

T14 Injury of unspecified body region

T15-T19 Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice

T20-T32 Burns and corrosions

T33-T34 Frostbite

T36-T50 Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances

T51-T65 Toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source

T66-T78 Other and unspecified effects of external causes

T79 Certain early complications of trauma

T80-T88 Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified

The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.