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9 Effect of reduced temperature, unspecified
T70 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
- T70.0 Otitic barotrauma
- Aero-otitis media
- Effects of change in ambient atmospheric pressure or water pressure on ears
- T70.1 Sinus barotrauma
- Aerosinusitis
- Effects of change in ambient atmospheric pressure on sinuses
- T70.2 Other and unspecified effects of high altitude
- Excludes2: polycythemia due to high altitude (D75.1)
- T70.20 Unspecified effects of high altitude
- T70.29 Other effects of high altitude
- Alpine sickness
- Anoxia due to high altitude
- Barotrauma NOS
- Hypobaropathy
- Mountain sickness
- T70.3 Caisson disease [decompression sickness]
- Compressed-air disease
- Diver's palsy or paralysis
- T70.4 Effects of high-pressure fluids
- Hydraulic jet injection (industrial)
- Pneumatic jet injection (industrial)
- Traumatic jet injection (industrial)
- T70.8 Other effects of air pressure and water pressure
- T70.9 Effect of air pressure and water pressure, unspecified
T71 Asphyxiation
- Mechanical suffocation
- Traumatic suffocation
- Excludes1: acute respiratory distress (syndrome) (J80)
- anoxia due to high altitude (T70.2)
- asphyxia NOS (R09.01)
- asphyxia from carbon monoxide (T58.-)
- asphyxia from inhalation of food or foreign body (T17.-)
- asphyxia from other gases, fumes and vapors (T59.-)
- respiratory distress (syndrome) in newborn (P22.-)
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T71
- A initial encounter
- D subsequent encounter
- S sequela
- T71.
