AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2011 Issue 4; VOLUMES 1 & 2 NEW/REVISED CODES

Infection Due to Central Venous Catheter and Transfusion Transmitted Infections

Effective October 1, 2011, new codes have been created to distinguish between local (999.32) and systemic (999.33) infections due to central venous catheter. Previously in ICD-9-CM, these infections were indexed to code 999.31, Infection due to central venous catheter. However, there are two major categories of infections due to central venous catheters: local and systemic. The existing code did not distinguish between central line-associated bloodstream infections, which are systemic, and local infections. There are very different clinical and epidemiologic implications between the two types of infections. Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), which is the current preferred...

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