XX: External causes of morbidity and mortality
Y40-Y84: Complications of medical and surgical care
The group of conditions labeled as complications of medical and surgical care refers to undesirable health outcomes that arise from health interventions. These include, but are not limited to, adverse drug interactions, infections acquired during hospital stay, accidental lacerations or punctures during procedures, anesthetic complications, and failed surgical and medical procedures. The causes can vary widely, from human error to patient-specific factors, like weakened immune systems making one more susceptible to infections. Symptoms also fluctuate based on the exact complication, such as developing a fever from an infection or experiencing unusual bleeding from a surgical site. These complications can exhibit different progressions and affect various systems in the body, depending primarily on the pre-existing medical or surgical intervention.
Subcodes of Y40-Y84:
- Y40-Y59: Drugs, medicaments and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic use
- Y60-Y69: Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care
- Y70-Y82: Medical devices associated with adverse incidents in diagnostic and therapeutic use
- Y83-Y84: Surgical and other medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of the patient, or of later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedure
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