May 17, 2024

We have had two cases of falls with surgical wound dehiscence recently. The wound dehiscence codes do not fall into inclusion criteria ICD-10 range (T81), but we feel like we should be picking these up because they were directly related to the falls. Are we correct that they are NPTOS? Or should we be coding differently?

If they don’t have an acute injury that qualifies, they won’t get picked up as PTOS. If they have surgical dehiscence, plus additional qualifying injury, then they may meet PTOS. Your registry may still wish to include as nonPTOS.

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