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518.51 - Acute Respiratory Failure Following Trauma And Surgery


The ICD 9 Code for Acute respiratory failure following trauma and surgery is listed as 518.51.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
ICD 9 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: 518.51
Long Description: Acute respiratory failure following trauma and surgery
Short Description: Ac resp flr fol trma/srg
Chapter: Diseases Of The Respiratory System
Block: Other Diseases Of Respiratory System (510-519)
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: J95.821 - Acute postprocedural respiratory failure (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: J96.00 - Acute respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 518.51:
518.52 - Other pulmonary insufficiency, not elsewhere classified, following trauma and surgery
518.53 - Acute and chronic respiratory failure following trauma and surgery