Traumatic compartment syndrome of right lower extremity

• birth trauma (P10-P15)
• obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

• 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
• 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.

• acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
• complications occurring during or following medical procedures (T80-T88)
• complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)
• newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T79

• fibromyalgia (M79.7)
• nontraumatic compartment syndrome (M79.A-)

traumatic ischemic infarction of muscle (T79.6)

Traumatic compartment syndrome of hip, buttock, thigh, leg, foot, and toes