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ICD-10 Concomitant Injury Diagnoses

🤔 Question: How do you differentiate between ICD 10 Diagnosis Codes and ICD 10 Concomitant Injury Diagnosis Codes? For example, if you have a burn patient come in with shock and lactic acidosis, how would you sort these when entering them into the registry?

🌱 Answer: ICD 10 diagnosis codes are for the burn and non-burn (TEN, Necrotizing Fasciitis, etc.) diagnoses. Concomitant Injury Diagnoses are related to all other identified injuries which occurred at the time of the burn or non-burn injury. If conditions like shock and lactic acidosis are related to the burn injury, you would enter these under the ICD 10 diagnosis codes.