ILL-DEFINED AND UNKNOWN CAUSES OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY (797-799)

Senility without mention of psychosis
Sudden death, cause unknown
Other ill-defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality

797 Senility without mention of psychosis


Old age
Senescence
Senile asthenia
Senile:
debility
exhaustion
Excludes: senile psychoses (290.0-290.9)

798 Sudden death, cause unknown


798.0 Sudden infant death syndrome

Cot death
Crib death
Sudden death of nonspecific cause in infancy

798.1 Instantaneous death

798.2 Death occurring in less than 24 hours from onset of symptoms, not otherwise explained

Death known not to be violent or instantaneous, for which no cause could be discovered
Died without sign of disease

798.9 Unattended death

Death in circumstances where the body of the deceased was found and no cause could be discovered
Found dead

799 Other ill-defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality


799.0 Asphyxia

Excludes: asphyxia (due to):
carbon monoxide (986)
inhalation of food or foreign body (932-934.9)
newborn (768.0-768.9)
traumatic (994.7)

799.1 Respiratory arrest

Cardiorespiratory failure
Excludes: cardiac arrest (427.5)
failure of peripheral circulation (785.50)
respiratory distress:
NOS (786.09)
acute (518.82)
following trauma or surgery (518.5)
newborn (770.89)
syndrome (newborn) (769)
adult (following trauma or surgery) (518.5)
other (518.82)
respiratory failure (518.81, 518.83-518.84)
newborn (770.84)
respiratory insufficiency (786.09)
acute (518.82)

799.2 Nervousness

"Nerves"

799.3 Debility, unspecified

Excludes: asthenia (780.79)
nervous debility (300.5)
neurasthenia (300.5)
senile asthenia (797)

799.4 Cachexia

Wasting disease
Excludes: nutritional marasmus (261)

799.8 Other ill-defined conditions

799.9 Other unknown and unspecified cause

Undiagnosed disease, not specified as to site or system involved
Unknown cause of morbidity or mortality