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The documentation does support that sepsis was ruled in. Culture of the draining left leg and blood cultures were sent to the laboratory for testing. The patient was admitted to r/o sepsis and to begin IV antibiotics. This had been an issue for several days and was extremely red and swollen. Patient presented with fever, chills, elevated WBC, and tachycardia with obvious left leg cellulitis due to previous removal of saphenous vein for CABG.The exceptions to this are when the infection/sepsis is obstetrical and a code from Chapter 15 within ICD-10-CM would be reported first. When sepsis is due to intraoperative or post procedural complications, a code from Chapter 19 within ICD-10-CM is sequenced first, followed by a code for the specific complication if applicable. Since the bacteria is responsible for both conditions, reporting the additional code for the bacteria would be redundant. coli bacteria causing the UTI, even though there is an instructional note, since the bacteria is clearly reported in code A41.51.

Note, in this case no additional code was added for the E. coli UTI, then A41.5-(Sepsis due to Escherichia coli) is the PDX followed by the diagnosis of UTI (N39.0-Urinary tract infection, site not specified) as a SDX code. In this case, since the sepsis was present on admission and due to E. After workup and treatment, the patient was discharged with a diagnosis of sepsis due to E.

Patient is admitted with multiple symptoms that were suggestive of sepsis.

If it is not clear that the sepsis was or was not present on admission, a query should be sent for clarification. In this case, since the sepsis was not present on admission the localized infection of pneumonia (J18.9-Pneumonia, unspecified organism) is sequenced as the PDX followed by the diagnosis of sepsis (A41.9-Sepsis unspecified organism) as a SDX code. The final diagnosis is pneumonia with sepsis. Antibiotics were changed and the patient improved and was able to be discharged on day four of admission. Patient was treated with IV antibiotics without improvement and the patient developed sepsis. Upon admission the patient is documented with confirmed pneumonia.

Patient presents with fever, chills, elevated WBC, shortness of breath, cough and mental status changes.

If the sepsis and/or pneumonia were further specified, coders would report the more specific codes. In this case, since the sepsis was present on admission and due to the underlying infection of pneumonia, the coder would sequence sepsis (A41.9-Sepsis unspecified organism) as the PDX and pneumonia (J18.9-Pneumonia, unspecified organism) as a SDX code.

The final diagnosis is sepsis due to pneumonia. Patient was treated with IV antibiotics with improvement and was able to be discharged on day four of admission. Upon admission the patient is documented with possible sepsis and chest x-ray confirmed pneumonia.

When sepsis is present on admission and due to a localized infection (not a device or post procedural), the sepsis code is sequenced first followed by the code for the localized infection. Without the diagnosis of sepsis falling into one of those chapters, coders should follow the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis can be caused by many different infections, and some of those are in other chapters within ICD-10-CM and have special sequencing instructions.