O85
Puerperal sepsis
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 14 never code together
Instructional notes 12
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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 7
- Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications)
- Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic) L02.91
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- Sepsis (generalized) (unspecified organism) A41.9
- Pelviperitonitis — see also Peritonitis, pelvic
- puerperal O85
- Peritonitis (adhesive) (bacterial) (fibrinous) (hemorrhagic) (idiopathic) (localized) (perforative) (primary) (with adhesions) (with effusion) K65.9
- puerperal, postpartum, childbirth O85
- Pyemia, pyemic (fever) (infection) (purulent) — see also Sepsis
- puerperal, postpartum, childbirth O85
Additional references
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