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R06.0 - Dyspnea


The ICD 10 Code for Dyspnea is listed as R06.0.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: R06.0
Description: Dyspnea
  • Excludes1: tachypnea NOS (R06.82)
  • transient tachypnea of newborn (P22.1)
Chapter Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
Block Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
Parent R06 - Abnormalities of breathing
ICD-10-CM Children (deeper level / typically more specific) of R06.0:
R06.00 - Dyspnea, unspecified
R06.01 - Orthopnea
R06.02 - Shortness of breath
R06.09 - Other forms of dyspnea
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of R06.0:
R06.1 - Stridor
R06.2 - Wheezing
R06.3 - Periodic breathing
R06.4 - Hyperventilation
R06.5 - Mouth breathing
R06.6 - Hiccough
R06.7 - Sneezing
R06.8 - Other abnormalities of breathing
R06.9 - Unspecified abnormalities of breathing