ICD-10 CM – Browse (Tabular)

Code Title
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S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
T80-T88 Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88)
T81 Complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified
T81.4 Infection following a procedure
Use Additional
code to identify infection

Type 2 Excludes
bleb associated endophthalmitis (H59.4-)
infection due to infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection (T80.2-)
infection due to prosthetic devices, implants and grafts (T82.6-T82.7, T83.5-T83.6, T84.5-T84.7, T85.7)
obstetric surgical wound infection (O86.0-)
postprocedural fever NOS (R50.82)
postprocedural retroperitoneal abscess (K68.11)

Applicable to
Wound abscess following a procedure

T81.40 Infection following a procedure, unspecified
T81.41 Infection following a procedure, superficial incisional surgical site
T81.42 Infection following a procedure, deep incisional surgical site
T81.43 Infection following a procedure, organ and space surgical site
T81.44 Sepsis following a procedure
T81.49 Infection following a procedure, other surgical site