O72.1
Other immediate postpartum hemorrhage
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 8 never code together
Instructional notes 11
O72code
Includes
- hemorrhage after delivery of fetus or infant
O72.1code
Inclusion terms
- Hemorrhage following delivery of placenta
- Postpartum hemorrhage (atonic) NOS
- Uterine atony with hemorrhage
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Notes
- CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- Codes from this chapter are for use for conditions related to or aggravated by the pregnancy, childbirth, or by the puerperium (maternal causes or obstetric causes)
- Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- 1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- 2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.Z3A
Index entries leading here 6
- Atonia, atony, atonic
- Bleeding — see also Hemorrhage
- atonic, following delivery O72.1
- Delivery (childbirth) (labor)
- Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications)
- hemorrhage O72.1
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) R58
- postpartum NEC (following delivery of placenta) O72.1
- Metrorrhagia N92.1
- postpartum NEC (atonic) (following delivery of placenta) O72.1
Alongside this code 3 same parent — O72
Medications 1
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