XX: External causes of morbidity and mortality
Y40-Y84: Complications of medical and surgical care
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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