About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of updating sepsis terminology in ICD-10-CM following the Sepsis-3 definition.

Documenting and coding sepsis has challenged virtually everyone in healthcare ever since Sepsis-3 redefined the condition in 2016 as a “life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection.” Meanwhile, ICD-10-CM still maintains the older Sepsis-2 language of sepsis (SIRS/Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome due to infection, without organ dysfunction) and severe sepsis (sepsis that does result in organ dysfunction). During the next live edition of Monitor Mo...

Topics covered

• sepsis
• ICD-10-CM
• healthcare coding
• medical terminology
• organ dysfunction

Keywords

• sepsis
• ICD-10-CM
• Sepsis-3
• Sepsis-2
• healthcare
• coding
• medical terminology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ICD-10-CM

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