AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2010 Issue 4; VOLUMES 1 & 2 NEW/REVISED CODES

Post-Traumatic Seizures

Effective October 1, 2010 a new code has been created to uniquely identify post-traumatic seizures (780.33). A post-traumatic seizure (PTS) is an initial or recurrent seizure episode not attributable to another obvious cause after penetrating or nonpenetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI). Seizures that occur shortly after a person suffers a brain injury may further damage the already vulnerable brain by decreasing the amount of oxygen available to the brain. The risk that a person will suffer PTS progressively decreases as time passes after the injury. Early PTS has been found to increase the risk of post traumatic epilepsy...

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