Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm (S47)
Instructional Notations
Use Additional Code
The “use additional code” indicates that a secondary code could be used to further specify the patient’s condition. This note is not mandatory and is only used if enough information is available to assign an additional code.
- code for all associated injuries
Type 2 Excludes
A type 2 excludes note represents "Not included here". An excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When an Excludes2 note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.
- crushing injury of elbow S57.0
7th Character Note
Certain ICD-10-CM categories have applicable 7th characters. The applicable 7th character is required for all codes within the category, or as the notes in the Tabular List instruct. The 7th character must always be the 7th character in the data field. If a code that requires a 7th character is not 6 characters, a placeholder X must be used to fill in the empty characters.
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S47
7th Character
Indicates that a seventh character is to be assigned to codes in a subcategory.
- A - initial encounter
- D - subsequent encounter
- S - sequela
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T88)
Injuries to the shoulder and upper arm (S40-S49)
S47 Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm
S47.1 Crushing injury of right shoulder and upper arm
- S47.1XXA Crushing injury of right shoulder and upper arm, initial encounter
- S47.1XXD Crushing injury of right shoulder and upper arm, subsequent encounter
- S47.1XXS Crushing injury of right shoulder and upper arm, sequela
S47.2 Crushing injury of left shoulder and upper arm
- S47.2XXA Crushing injury of left shoulder and upper arm, initial encounter
- S47.2XXD Crushing injury of left shoulder and upper arm, subsequent encounter
- S47.2XXS Crushing injury of left shoulder and upper arm, sequela
S47.9 Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm, unspecified arm
- S47.9XXA Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm, unspecified arm, initial encounter
- S47.9XXD Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm, unspecified arm, subsequent encounter
- S47.9XXS Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm, unspecified arm, sequela
Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm (S47)