Chapter: 19. Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

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 to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

birth trauma (P10-P15)

obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

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.

Section List

Injuries to the head (S00-S09)

Injuries to the neck (S10-S19)

Injuries to the thorax (S20-S29)

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

Injuries to the shoulder and upper arm (S40-S49)

Injuries to the elbow and forearm (S50-S59)

Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers (S60-S69)

Injuries to the hip and thigh (S70-S79)

Injuries to the knee and lower leg (S80-S89)

Injuries to the ankle and foot (S90-S99)

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (T07-T88)