The Most Common Complications of Premature Births. The risk of complications increases the earlier the baby is born. Any complication that a premature newborn experiences will be treated in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Immature Lungs â Most babies have mature lungs by 36 weeks of gestation.
Principal diagnosis: 518.81, acute respiratory failure. Secondary diagnosis: 358.01, myasthenia gravis with (acute) exacerbation. Patient with emphysema develops acute respiratory failure and is admitted for treatment of the respiratory failure. Principal diagnosis: 518.81, acute respiratory failure.
Respiratory failure/Pneumocystis carinii/AIDS. Respiratory failure due to Pneumocystis carinii which is due to AIDS is assigned code 042, Human. Immunodeficiency Virus, and sequenced as the principal diagnosis. Acute respiratory failure, 518.81, with pneumocystosis, 136.3, are sequenced as secondary diagnoses.