Pressure, as mode of injury or harm

Definition

Includes factors such as: body positioning, retractors, or other instruments causing tissue damage through direct pressure

Coding note

Code first the injury or harm associated with the procedure or intervention. Code also the cause of harm which identifies the procedure or intervention.

Exclusions

• Pressure as potential mode of injury without injury or harm (QA53)

Also indexed as

Nearby in Mode of injury or harm associated with a surgical or other medical procedure

• PL11.0Cut, puncture or tear, as mode of injury or harm
• PL11.1Burn arising during procedure, as mode of injury or harm
• PL11.2Embolisation, as mode of injury or harm
• PL11.3Foreign body accidentally left in body, as mode of injury or harm
• PL11.4Failure of sterile precautions, as mode of injury or harm
• PL11.5Procedure undertaken at wrong site or wrong side, as mode of injury or harm
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified