For example: char a; a= getchar(); The function getchar() reads a single character from the standard input device, the keyboard being assumed because that is the standard input device, and assigns it to the variable a.
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.
Patient is admitted to the hospital with severe staphylococcal aureus sepsis and acute respiratory failure. Principal diagnosis: 038.11, staphylococcal aureus septicemia. Secondary diagnoses: 995.92, systemic inflammatory response syndrome due to infectious process with organ dysfunction and 518.81, acute respiratory failure.