Category: T70 - Effects of air pressure and water pressure
Chapter Notes
Effects of air pressure and water pressure
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T70
A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela
Otitic barotrauma
Aero-otitis media
Effects of change in ambient atmospheric pressure or water pressure on ears
Sinus barotrauma
Aerosinusitis
Effects of change in ambient atmospheric pressure on sinuses
Other and unspecified effects of high altitude
polycythemia due to high altitude (D75.1)
Unspecified effects of high altitude
Other effects of high altitude
Alpine sickness
Anoxia due to high altitude
Barotrauma NOS
Hypobaropathy
Mountain sickness
Caisson disease [decompression sickness]
Compressed-air disease
Diver's palsy or paralysis
Effects of high-pressure fluids
Hydraulic jet injection (industrial)
Pneumatic jet injection (industrial)
Traumatic jet injection (industrial)
Other effects of air pressure and water pressure
Effect of air pressure and water pressure, unspecified
