AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2022 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes

Ventricular Tachycardia

Code I47.2, Ventricular tachycardia, has been expanded with the creation of three new codes to identify Torsades de pointes and unspecified and other types of ventricular tachycardia as follows:I47.20, Ventricular tachycardia, unspecified I47.21, Torsades de pointes I47.29, Other ventricular tachycardia Ventricular tachycardia, also referred to as VT or V-tach, is arrhythmia that is caused by irregular electrical signals in the ventricles. Torsades de pointes (TdP), is a type of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. It is an uncommon type of tachycardia arrhythmia, in which the heart’s two lower chambers (ventricles) beat faster than the two upper...

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