ICD-10 Clinic - Book 8: Heart and Circulation

The chapter where combination codes matter most. High blood pressure is rarely coded alone: the classification joins it to the heart, to the kidney, or to both, and this book shows you exactly which category applies and what has to be added afterwards. Heart failure by type, including the headings that are not assignable codes. Coronary artery disease with angina, and why you must not double up. Then the four-week rule for a heart attack, what happens after it, what happens when a second attack falls inside the same window, and the thrombolysis rule. Finally stroke, and the codes for the deficits that remain afterwards, sometimes for the rest of a patient's life. Fifteen exercises with worked answers.

Twenty-five A4 pages, in full colour. Written in short sentences and plain English, for readers whose first language is not English and clearer for everyone else because of it.

Every ICD-10-CM code in this book was verified against the official 2026 code set before the file was made. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.