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ICD-9-CM
518.52

ICD-9-CM Code 518.52

Official Description

Other pulmonary insufficiency, not elsewhere classified, following trauma and surgery
Adult respiratory distress syndrome
Pulmonary insufficiency following surgery
Pulmonary insufficiency following trauma
Shock lung related to trauma and surgery

Excludes: adult respiratory distress syndrome associated with other conditions (518.82), aspiration pneumonia (507.0), hypostatic pneumonia (514), shock lung, not related to trauma or surgery (518.82)
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