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Table 3 Diagnosis codes used to identify organ dysfunction [12]

From: Transfer hospitalizations for pediatric severe sepsis or septic shock: resource use and outcomes

Organ Dysfunction

ICD-9-CM codes

Diagnosis

Respiratory

518.81

Acute respiratory failure

518.82

Acute respiratory distress, insufficiency

518.5

Pulmonary insufficiency following trauma and surgery

799.1

Respiratory arrest, cardiorespiratory failure

96.7

Mechanical ventilation

518.84

Acute-on-chronic respiratory failure

Cardiovascular

785.50

Shock unspecified, failure of peripheral circulation

785.59

Other shock, Septic

458

Hypotension

427.5

Cardiac arrest

Neurologic

293

Transient organic psychosis

348.1

Anoxic brain injury

348.3

Acute encephalopathy

780.01

Coma

780.09

Altered consciousness, unspecified

Hepatic

570

Acute and subacute necrosis of liver

573.4

Hepatic infarction

Hematologic

286.6

Defibrination syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation

286.9

Other and unspecified coagulation defects

287.4

Secondary thrombocytopenia

287.5

Thrombocytopenia, unspecified

Renal

584

Acute renal failure

586

Renal failure, unspecified

788.5

Oliguria, anuria