ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R00-R09 › R06.0 Dyspnea › R06.03
R06.03
Acute respiratory distress
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2018 to now.
- FY2018 Added to the code set Acute respiratory distress
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 R06 Abnormalities of breathing
Excludes1 - never coded here
- acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
- respiratory arrest (R09.2)
- respiratory arrest of newborn (P28.81)
- respiratory distress syndrome of newborn (P22.-)
- respiratory failure (J96.-)
- respiratory failure of newborn (P28.5)
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.
- Distress > respiratory
- Distress > acute respiratory
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R06.00 | Dyspnea, unspecified | Valid |
| R06.01 | Orthopnea | Valid |
| R06.02 | Shortness of breath | Valid |
| R06.09 | Other forms of dyspnea | Valid |