Other complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified
Requires 7th character
T88 requires a 7th character to be reported. Choose a complete code below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- Note: Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
- Note: The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- birth trauma (P10-P15)
- obstetric trauma (O70-O71)
- any encounters with medical care for postprocedural conditions in which no complications are present, such as:
- artificial opening status (Z93.-)
- closure of external stoma (Z43.-)
- fitting and adjustment of external prosthetic device (Z44.-)
- burns and corrosions from local applications and irradiation (T20-T32)
- complications of surgical procedures during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- mechanical complication of respirator [ventilator] (J95.850)
- poisoning and toxic effects of drugs and chemicals (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4 or 6)
- postprocedural fever (R50.82)
- specified complications classified elsewhere, such as:
- cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture (G97.0)
- colostomy malfunction (K94.0-)
- disorders of fluid and electrolyte imbalance (E86-E87)
- functional disturbances following cardiac surgery (I97.0-I97.1)
- intraoperative and postprocedural complications of specified body systems (D78.-, E36.-, E89.-, G97.3-, G97.4, H59.3-, H59.-, H95.2-, H95.3, I97.4-, I97.5, J95.6-, J95.7, K91.6-, L76.-, M96.-, N99.-)
- ostomy complications (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
- postgastric surgery syndromes (K91.1)
- postlaminectomy syndrome NEC (M96.1)
- postmastectomy lymphedema syndrome (I97.2)
- postsurgical blind-loop syndrome (K91.2)
- ventilator associated pneumonia (J95.851)
- complication following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection (T80.-)
- complication following procedure NEC (T81.-)
- complications of anesthesia in labor and delivery (O74.-)
- complications of anesthesia in pregnancy (O29.-)
- complications of anesthesia in puerperium (O89.-)
- complications of devices, implants and grafts (T82-T85)
- complications of obstetric surgery and procedure (O75.4)
- dermatitis due to drugs and medicaments (L23.3, L24.4, L25.1, L27.0-L27.1)
- poisoning and toxic effects of drugs and chemicals (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4)
- specified complications classified elsewhere
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
- code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
- code(s) to identify the specified condition resulting from the complication
- code to identify devices involved and details of circumstances (Y62-Y82)
7th character
This code requires a 7th character. Use the placeholder "X" for missing positions.
| Character | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | initial encounter |
| D | subsequent encounter |
| S | sequela |
More specific codes T88
- T88.0Infection following immunizationNeeds 7th char
- T88.1Other complications following immunization, not elsewhere classifiedNeeds 7th char
- T88.2Shock due to anesthesiaNeeds 7th char
- T88.3Malignant hyperthermia due to anesthesiaNeeds 7th char
- T88.4Failed or difficult intubationNeeds 7th char
- T88.5Other complications of anesthesiaNeeds 7th char
- T88.6Anaphylactic reaction due to adverse effect of correct drug or medicament properly administeredNeeds 7th char
- T88.7Unspecified adverse effect of drug or medicamentNeeds 7th char
- T88.8Other specified complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classifiedNeeds 7th char
- T88.9Complication of surgical and medical care, unspecifiedNeeds 7th char
Related codes
- T80Complications following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injectionNeeds 7th char
- T81Complications of procedures, not elsewhere classifiedNeeds 7th char
- T82Complications of cardiac and vascular prosthetic devices, implants and graftsNeeds 7th char
- T83Complications of genitourinary prosthetic devices, implants and graftsNeeds 7th char
- T84Complications of internal orthopedic prosthetic devices, implants and graftsNeeds 7th char
- T85Complications of other internal prosthetic devices, implants and graftsNeeds 7th char
- T86Complications of transplanted organs and tissueHeader
- T87Complications peculiar to reattachment and amputationHeader