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2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 518.5

Pulmonary insufficiency following trauma and surgery

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  • A syndrome of life-threatening progressive pulmonary insufficiency in the absence of known pulmonary disease, usually following a systemic insult such as SURGERY or major TRAUMA.
  • 518.5 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis
  • 518.5 contains 19 index entries
  • View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 518.* hierarchy

518.5 also known as:

  • Adult respiratory distress syndrome
  • Pulmonary insufficiency following:
    • shock
    • surgery
    • trauma
  • Shock lung

518.5 excludes:

  • adult respiratory distress syndrome associated with other conditions (518.82)
  • pneumonia:
  • respiratory failure in other conditions (518.81, 518.83-518.84)

Index entries containing 518.5:

Complications
  • respiratory 519.9
    • distress syndrome, adult, following trauma or surgery 518.5
    • insufficiency, acute, postoperative 518.5
Congestion, congestive (chronic) (passive)
  • lung 514
    • idiopathic, acute 518.5
Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • Woillez's (acute idiopathic pulmonary congestion) 518.5
Distress
  • respiratory 786.09
    • adult syndrome (following shock, surgery, or trauma) 518.5
Drowned, drowning 994.1
  • lung 518.5
Failure, failed
  • respiration, respiratory 518.81
    • due to trauma, surgery or shock 518.5
Insufficiency, insufficient
  • lung (acute) (see also Insufficiency, pulmonary) 518.82
    • following trauma, surgery, or shock 518.5
  • pulmonary (acute) 518.82
    • following
      • shock 518.5
      • surgery 518.5
      • trauma 518.5
  • respiratory 786.09
    • acute 518.82
      • following shock, surgery, or trauma 518.5
Respiratory - see also condition
  • distress 786.09
    • syndrome (newborn) 769
      • adult (following shock, surgery, or trauma) 518.5
Shock 785.50
  • lung 518.5
Syndrome - see also Disease
  • respiratory distress (idiopathic) (newborn) 769
    • adult (following shock, surgery, or trauma) 518.5
  • shock (traumatic) 958.4
    • lung 518.5
  • wet
    • adult 518.5
Wet
  • lung (syndrome)
    • adult 518.5
Woillez's disease (acute idiopathic pulmonary congestion) 518.5