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E- Codes: Supplemental classification of external causes of injury and poisoning [E800-E990]. E codes capture how the injury or poisoning happened or cause the intent unintentional or accidental or accidental, or intentional, such as suicide or assault and the place where the event occurred. Some major categories of E codes include * Transport accident
* poisoning and adverse effects of drugs, medicinal substances and biologicals
* Accidental falls
* Accidents caused by fire and flames
* Accidents due to natural and environmental factors.
* Late effects of accidents, assaults or self injury
* Assaults or purposely inflicted injury
* Suicide or self inflicted injury E Section:- External causes of injury: E800-E807 Railway accidents E810-E819 Motor vehicle traffic accidents E820-E825 Motor vehicle non-traffic accidents E826-E829 Other road vehicle accidents E830-E838 Water transport accidents E840-E845 Air and space transport accidents E846-E848 Vehicle accidents not elsewhere classifiable E849 Place of Occurrence E850-E858 Accidental poisoning by drugs, medicinal substances, and biologicals E860-E869 Accidental poisoning by other solid and liquid substances, gases, and vapors E870-E876 Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care E878-E879 Surgical and medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of patient or later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of procedure E880-E888 Accidental falls E890-E899 Accidents caused by fire and flames E900-E909 Accidents due to natural and environmental factors E910-E915 Accidents caused by submersion, suffocation, and foreign bodies E916-E928 Other accidents E929 Late effects of accidental injury E930-E949 Drugs, medicinal and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic use E950-E959 Suicide and self-inflicted injury E960-E969 Homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons E970-E978 Legal intervention E979 Terrorism E980-E989 Injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted E990-E999 Injury resulting from operations of war These guidelines apply to the coding and collection of E codes from records in hospitals, outpatient clinics emergency departments, other ambulatory care settings and provider offices and non acute care settings,except when other specific guidelines apply 1. Poisoning [ 960-989]: These codes are used when there is a statement of poisoning, overdose, wrong
substances given or taken, or intoxication. 2. Accidental Poisoning [E850-E869]: Accidental overdose or drugs, wrong substance given or taken,
drug taken inadvertently, accidents in the usage of drugs and bilogicals in medical and surgical
procedure. 3. Therapeutic use [E930-E949]: A correct substance properly administered in therapeutic or prophylactic
dosage as the external cause of adverse effects. 4. Suicide attempt [E950-E952]: instances in which self-inflicted injuries or poisonings are involved. 5. Assault [E961-E962]: injury or poisoning inflicted by another person with intent to injure or kill. 6. Undetermined [E980-E982]: to be used when the intent of the poisoning or injury cannot be determined
whether it was intentional or accidental. Examples: Dry mouth due to phenobarbital Codes: 527.7[dry mouth], 937.0 [ phenobarbital] Examples: Parkinsonism due to haloperidol Code: 332.1 [parkinsonism], E939.2 [haloperidol] Examples: convulsion due to over dose of drugs Codes: 968.2 [convulsion], E850.8 [Darvon accident] Examples: cerebral anoxia due to barbturate overdose suicide attempt Codes: 968.3 [barbturate], E950.1 [suicide] 348.1 [cerebral anoxia] Examples: coma due to overdose of phenobarbital Codes: 967.0, E980.1 [undetermined], 780.01 [coma] Examples: supraventicular tachycardia due to digoxin Codes: 427.0, E942.1 Examples: convulation due to darovan Codes: 965.8, 780.39,E935.8
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