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ICD-9-CM
518.5

ICD-9-CM Code 518.5
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Official Description

Pulmonary insufficiency following trauma and surgery
Adult respiratory distress syndrome
Pulmonary insufficiency following: shock, surgery, trauma
Shock lung
Excludes: adult respiratory distress syndrome associated with other conditions (518.82)
pneumonia: aspiration (507.0), hypostatic (514), respiratory failure in other conditions (518.81, 518.83-518.84)
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