O75.4
Other complications of obstetric surgery and procedures
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 never code together
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Excludes2
- complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery (O74.-)O74.-O74.-
- disruption of obstetrical (surgical) wound (O90.0-O90.1)O90.0-O90.1O90.0-O90.1
- hematoma of obstetrical (surgical) wound (O90.2)O90.2O90.2
- infection of obstetrical (surgical) wound (O86.0-)O86.0-O86.0-
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Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 12
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Inclusion terms
- Cardiac arrest following obstetric surgery or procedures
- Cardiac failure following obstetric surgery or procedures
- Cerebral anoxia following obstetric surgery or procedures
- Pulmonary edema following obstetric surgery or procedures
Use additional code
- code to identify specific complication
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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 4
- Anoxia (pathological) R09.02
- Arrest, arrested
- Failure, failed
- Complication (s) (from) (of)
Alongside this code 7 same parent — O75
O75.0 Maternal distress during labor and delivery O75.1 Shock during or following labor and delivery O75.2 Pyrexia during labor, not elsewhere classified O75.3 Other infection during labor O75.5 Delayed delivery after artificial rupture of membranes O75.8 Other specified complications of labor and delivery category O75.9 Complication of labor and delivery, unspecified
Medications 2
43 Obstetric Labor Complications drugs 1315 Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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