Failed or difficult intubation during pregnancy

Definition

A condition affecting females during pregnancy, caused by physiological, pathophysiological, or psychological factors that aggravate the tissues necessary to secure the tube. This condition is characterised by a difficulty or inability to insert a tube into an external or internal orifice of the body during pregnancy.

4 subordinate codes

• JA67.50Failed intubation during pregnancy
• JA67.51Difficult intubation during pregnancy
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified

Nearby in Complications of anaesthesia during pregnancy

• JA67.0Pulmonary complications of anaesthesia during pregnancy
• JA67.1Cardiac complications of anaesthesia during pregnancy
• JA67.2Central nervous system complications of anaesthesia during pregnancy
• JA67.3Toxic reaction to local anaesthesia during pregnancy
• JA67.4Spinal or epidural anaesthesia-induced headache during pregnancy
• JA67.6Awareness under general anaesthesia during pregnancy
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified