Resistance to multiple antimicrobial drugs

• Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)
• Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)
• Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (A41.02)

the infection

The codes in this category are provided for use as additional codes to identify the resistance and non-responsiveness of a condition to antimicrobial drugs.

• Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
• (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
• (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.

resistance to antibiotics (Z16.1-, Z16.2-)