E876.2 - Failure In Suture And Ligature During Surgical Operation

The ICD 9 Code for Failure in suture and ligature during surgical operation is listed as E876.2.
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:	E876.2
Long Description:	Failure in suture and ligature during surgical operation
Short Description:	Failure in suture

Chapter:	Supplementary Classification Of External Causes Of Injury And Poisoning
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code:	Y65.2 - Failure in suture or ligature during surgical operation
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of E876.2:
E876.0 - Mismatched blood in transfusion
E876.1 - Wrong fluid in infusion
E876.3 - Endotracheal tube wrongly placed during anesthetic procedure
E876.4 - Failure to introduce or to remove other tube or instrument
E876.5 - Performance of wrong operation (procedure) on correct patient
E876.6 - Performance of operation (procedure) on patient not scheduled for surgery
E876.7 - Performance of correct operation (procedure) on wrong side/body part
E876.8 - Other specified misadventures during medical care
E876.9 - Unspecified misadventure during medical care