Bizarre ICD-10 Diagnosis Code
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Bizarre ICD-10 Diagnosis Code
ICD-10 is a compendium of medical diagnosis codes used throughout much of the world. Here is one of the more unusual diagnosis codes: V97.33 Sucked Into a Jet Engine
Try hard not to have this code added to your medical history!
https://icdlist.com/icd-10/V97.33
Try hard not to have this code added to your medical history!
https://icdlist.com/icd-10/V97.33
Interestingly, jet engine ingestions where considerably more common back in the low bypass engine days - when there were inlet guide vanes to keep you out of the fan (it could still result in serious injury though, and a few fatalities).
When high bypass engines became the norm (with nothing to keep the fan from turning one into hamburger), people apparently became more aware and careful as ingestions became extremely rare.
When high bypass engines became the norm (with nothing to keep the fan from turning one into hamburger), people apparently became more aware and careful as ingestions became extremely rare.
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It gets worse. The bureaucrats that gave us excruciatingly detailed diagnosis codes also added even finer subsets of codes for this rare event, insisting on different coding for:
"Sucked into jet engine" vs "Sucked into jet engine, initial encounter" vs "Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter" and of course "Sucked into jet engine, sequela".
Woe be to the doctor or coder who puts in the wrong code for the event.
"Sucked into jet engine" vs "Sucked into jet engine, initial encounter" vs "Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter" and of course "Sucked into jet engine, sequela".
Woe be to the doctor or coder who puts in the wrong code for the event.
