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.
When a patient was admitted in respiratory failure due to/associated with congestive heart. failure (CHF), CHF was sequenced as the principal diagnosis until discharges of April 20, 2005, when the respiratory failure guidelines were revised. A patient with CHF is admitted to the hospital for acute respiratory failure. The principal. diagnosis is acute respiratory failure, 518.81, and the secondary diagnosis is CHF, 428.0. The principal diagnosis depends on the reason for admission.