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This excludes acute and chronic respiratory failure (518.84), acute respiratory distress (518.82), acute respiratory failure following trauma and surgery (518.51), chronic respiratory failure (518.83), respiratory arrest (799.1), and respiratory failure, newborn (770.84). This applies to respiratory failure NOS.
I'd like to discuss some of the limitations and challenges of these codes and their current descriptions. Postoperative and post-traumatic respiratory failure. ICD-9-CM codes 518.5â518.53 include the description following trauma and surgery.. Combining trauma and surgery into one code is inappropriate.