ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O20-O29 › O29 Complications of anesthesia during... › O29.6
Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:
- O29.60 Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, unspecified trimester
- O29.61 Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, first trimester
- O29.62 Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, second trimester
- O29.63 Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, third trimester
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from O29 Complications of anesthesia during pregnancy
Excludes2 - not included here
- complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery (O74.-)
- complications of anesthesia during the puerperium (O89.-)
Use additional code
- code, if necessary, to identify the complication
Includes
- maternal complications arising from the administration of a general, regional or local anesthetic, analgesic or other sedation during pregnancy
Inherited from the O20-O29 section Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy (O20-O29)
Excludes2 - not included here
- maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems (O30-O48)
- maternal diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the puerperium (O98-O99)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Cicatrix
- Analgesia
- Sialorrhea
- Anteflexion
- Itch, itching
- Pinpoint > os
- Stricture > vagina
- Anteversion > cervix
- Stricture > os uteri
- Pregnancy > high-risk
- Reaction > anesthesia
- Supervision > pregnancy
- Disease, diseased > renal
- Effect, adverse > anesthesia
- Occlusion, occluded > cervix
- Syndrome > cardiorenal Note:
- Pregnancy > normal > high-risk
- Stricture > uterus, uterine > os
- Supervision > high-risk pregnancy
- Complication > spinal > anesthesia
- Pregnancy > examination > high-risk
- Occlusion, occluded > cervical canal
- Stenosis, stenotic > endocervical os
- Complication > anesthesia, anesthetic
- Syndrome > cardiovascular renal Note:
- Encounter > pregnancy > supervision of
- Pregnancy > prenatal care only > high-risk
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > cervix
- Pregnancy > complicated by > previous history of
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > internal os
- Prediabetes, prediabetic > complicating > pregnancy
- Anesthesia, anesthetic > complication or reaction NEC
- Necrosis, necrotic > kidney > tubular > complicating > pregnancy
- Failure, failed > intubation during anesthesia > in pregnancy
- Pregnancy > complicated by > failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia
- Complication > anesthesia, anesthetic > difficult or failed intubation > in pregnancy
- Pregnancy > complicated by > adverse effect anesthesia > failed or difficult intubation
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O29.0 | Pulmonary complications of anesthesia during pregnancy | Not billable |
| O29.1 | Cardiac complications of anesthesia during pregnancy | Not billable |
| O29.2 | Central nervous system complications of anesthesia during pregnancy | Not billable |
| O29.3 | Toxic reaction to local anesthesia during pregnancy | Not billable |
| O29.4 | Spinal and epidural anesthesia induced headache during pregnancy | Not billable |
| O29.5 | Other complications of spinal and epidural anesthesia during pregnancy | Not billable |
| O29.8 | Other complications of anesthesia during pregnancy | Not billable |
| O29.9 | Unspecified complication of anesthesia during pregnancy | Not billable |