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518.53 - Acute And Chronic Respiratory Failure Following Trauma And Surgery


The ICD 9 Code for Acute and chronic respiratory failure following trauma and surgery is listed as 518.53.
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: 518.53
Long Description: Acute and chronic respiratory failure following trauma and surgery
Short Description: Ac/chr rsp flr fol tr/sg
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: J95.822 - Acute and chronic postprocedural respiratory failure (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: J96.20 - Acute and chronic respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 518.53:
518.51 - Acute respiratory failure following trauma and surgery
518.52 - Other pulmonary insufficiency, not elsewhere classified, following trauma and surgery