ICD-10-CM Code for Shortness of breath R06.02

ICD-10 code R06.02 for Shortness of breath is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .

Shortness of breath

R06.0

Excludes1: tachypnea NOS (R06.82)
transient tachypnea of newborn (P22.1)

R06

Excludes1: 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)

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