ICD-10-CM Features

Specificity & Clinical Detail

ICD-10-CM makes a distinction between intraoperative and postprocedural complications.

This chart shows examples of codes for intraoperative and postoperative complications.

Table 14. Examples of ICD-10-CM codes for intraoperative and postprocedural complications

ICD-10-CM Code	Description
D78.01	Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of the spleen complicating a procedure on the spleen
D78.21	Postprocedural hemorrhage of the spleen following a procedure on the spleen