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799.01 ASPHYXIA


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 799.01

Short Description: Asphyxia

Long Description: Asphyxia

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
    • Ill-defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality (797-799)
      • 799 Other ill-defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality
        • 799.01 Asphyxia

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 799.01 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Asphyxia, asphyxiation (by) 799.01
    • antenatal - see Distress, fetal
    • bedclothes 994.7
    • birth (see also Asphyxia, newborn) 768.9
    • bunny bag 994.7
    • carbon monoxide 986
    • caul (see also Asphyxia, newborn) 768.9
    • cave-in 994.7
      • crushing - see Injury, internal, intrathoracic organs
    • constriction 994.7
    • crushing - see Injury, internal, intrathoracic organs
    • drowning 994.1
    • fetal, affecting newborn 768.9
    • food or foreign body (in larynx) 933.1
      • bronchioles 934.8
      • bronchus (main) 934.1
      • lung 934.8
      • nasopharynx 933.0
      • nose, nasal passages 932
      • pharynx 933.0
      • respiratory tract 934.9
        • specified part NEC 934.8
      • throat 933.0
      • trachea 934.0
    • gas, fumes, or vapor NEC 987.9
      • specified - see Table of Drugs and Chemicals
    • gravitational changes 994.7
    • hanging 994.7
    • inhalation - see Inhalation
    • intrauterine
      • fetal death (before onset of labor) 768.0
        • during labor 768.1
      • liveborn infant - see Distress, fetal, liveborn infant
    • local 443.0
    • mechanical 994.7
      • during birth (see also Distress, fetal) 768.9
    • mucus 933.1
      • bronchus (main) 934.1
      • larynx 933.1
      • lung 934.8
      • nasal passages 932
      • newborn 770.18
      • pharynx 933.0
      • respiratory tract 934.9
        • specified part NEC 934.8
      • throat 933.0
      • trachea 934.0
      • vaginal (fetus or newborn) 770.18
    • newborn 768.9
      • with neurologic involvement 768.5
      • blue 768.6
      • livida 768.6
      • mild or moderate 768.6
      • pallida 768.5
      • severe 768.5
      • white 768.5
    • pathological 799.01
    • plastic bag 994.7
    • postnatal (see also Asphyxia, newborn) 768.9
      • mechanical 994.7
    • pressure 994.7
    • reticularis 782.61
    • strangulation 994.7
    • submersion 994.1
    • traumatic NEC - see Injury, internal, intrathoracic organs
    • vomiting, vomitus - see Asphyxia, food or foreign body
  • Pathologic, pathological - see also condition
    • asphyxia 799.01
  • Suffocation (see also Asphyxia) 799.01
    • by
      • bed clothes 994.7
      • bunny bag 994.7
      • cave-in 994.7
      • constriction 994.7
      • drowning 994.1
      • inhalation
        • food or foreign body (see also Asphyxia, food or foreign body) 933.1
        • oil or gasoline (see also Asphyxia, food or foreign body) 933.1
      • overlying 994.7
      • plastic bag 994.7
      • pressure 994.7
      • strangulation 994.7
    • during birth 768.1
    • mechanical 994.7

Crosswalk Information

The code 799.01 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
799.01 Right Arrow R09.01 Asphyxia
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

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ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
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799.23 Impulsiveness
799.24 Emotional lability
799.25 Demoralization and apathy
799.29 Other signs and symptoms involving emotional state
799.3 Debility, unspecified
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799.51 Attention or concentration deficit
799.52 Cognitive communication deficit
799.53 Visuospatial deficit
799.54 Psychomotor deficit
799.55 Frontal lobe and executive function deficit
799.59 Other signs and symptoms involving cognition
799.81 Decreased libido
799.82 Apparent life threatening event in infant
799.89 Other ill-defined conditions
799.9 Other unknown and unspecified cause of morbidity and mortality

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