AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1988 Second Quarter

Cardiac Arrest, 427.5

Code 427.5, Cardiac arrest (excludes that with pregnancy, anesthesia overdose or wrong substance given, and postoperative complications), may be assigned as principal diagnosis in the following instances: If the patient arrives in the hospital's emergency service unit in a state of cardiac arrest, cannot be resuscitated or only briefly resuscitated, and is pronounced dead with the underlying cause of the cardiac arrest not established (cause unknown), code 427.5 is assigned as the diagnosis. If the patient arrives at the hospital in a state of cardiac arrest, is resuscitated, and is admitted as an inpatient but dies before...

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