ICD-10 Clinic Intermediate - Book 6: Respiratory Cases

Chapter 10 of the code book is where sequencing gets argued about. Respiratory failure alone accounts for more disputes than any other single condition, and the rule that settles it is short. This book covers asthma on two axes, COPD and what its combination codes absorb, pneumonia by organism and by how it was acquired, respiratory failure and its sequencing rule, ventilator and oxygen status, and the tobacco codes the chapter demands.

The ten chapters:

1. Asthma on two axes

2. COPD and what it absorbs

3. COPD with an infection

4. Pneumonia by organism

5. Aspiration, ventilator and COVID-19

6. Respiratory failure, two axes

7. The sequencing rule

8. Fluid, collapse and the pleura

9. Oxygen and ventilator status

10. Tobacco

Twenty-five A4 pages in full colour, with a two-page Coding Lab that works a full record step by step, a page of the eight pitfalls that cost the most marks, fifteen practice questions with a worked answer for every one, and a glossary.

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.