Acute serous otitis media

nonsuppurative otitis media with myringitis

• code for any associated perforated tympanic membrane (H72.-)
• code, if applicable, to identify:
• exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
• exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
• history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
• infectious agent (B95-B97)
• occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
• tobacco dependence (F17.-)
• tobacco use (Z72.0)

• certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
• certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
• complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
• congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
• endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
• injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
• neoplasms (C00-D49)
• symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition