ICD-10-CM code "T71.20": Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air due to unspecified cause (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeT71.20
DescriptionAsphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air due to unspecified cause
Hierarchy
  1. Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  2. Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)
  3. Asphyxiation (T71)
  4. Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air (T71.2)
  5. Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air due to unspecified cause (T71.20)
Billable statusICD-10-CM Billable code

Excludes

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

    Type 1birth trauma (P10-P15)

    Type 1obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

  2. Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)
  3. Asphyxiation (T71)

    Type 1acute respiratory distress (syndrome) (J80)

    Type 1anoxia due to high altitude (T70.2)

    Type 1asphyxia NOS (R09.01)

    Type 1asphyxia from carbon monoxide (T58.-)

    Type 1asphyxia from inhalation of food or foreign body (T17.-)

    Type 1asphyxia from other gases, fumes and vapors (T59.-)

    Type 1respiratory distress (syndrome) in newborn (P22.-)

  4. Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air (T71.2)
  5. Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air due to unspecified cause (T71.20)

Includes

  1. Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  2. Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)
  3. Asphyxiation (T71)
  4. Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air (T71.2)
  5. Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air due to unspecified cause (T71.20)