2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 427.5
Cardiac arrest
- cessation of the heart beat.
- Cardiac standstill or arrest; absence of a heartbeat.
- Sudden cessation of the pumping function of the heart, with disappearance of arterial blood pressure, connoting either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular standstill.
- Cessation of breathing and/or cardiac function.
- ICD-9-CM 427.5 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2012 version of ICD-9-CM 427.5.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 427.5: 2013.
427.5 Alternative Terminology
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ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 427.5:
cardiac 
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molar pregnancy (see also categories 
