Question

14 The patient is a 10-month-old female infant who was discharged from the hospital 48 hours ago after treatment for a community-acquired pneumonia and gastroenteritis. The child aceived IV antibiotics in the hospital. The fever and the diarrhea abated, and the child was discharged to her parents care. However, early this morning the child's father called the doctor and said her fever and diarrhea had returned, she was increasingly lethargic, and was refusing to take fluids or food. The child was readmitted to the hospital for dehydration and hypokale- mia. She was placed on IV fluids and medications to treat the dehydration and hypokalemia and continued on antibiotics for resolving pneumonia. Within 24 hours the child was afebrile with no diarrhea and a good appetite. Electrolyte laboratory values were back in the normal ranges. The baby also had a diaper rash that was treated in the hospital with medication that was also given to the parents to take home. The patient was discharged to her parents' care with prescriptions given and a follow-up appointment made for 5 days later. The diagnoses listed by the physician in the discharge summary were (1) dehydration, (2) hypokalemia, (3) gastroenteritis, (4) resolving pneumonia, community-acquired, and (5) diaper rash. Principal Diagnosis: Secondary Diagnoses: Principal Procedure: Secondary Procedure(s): -

please provide ICD-10-CM codes

Answer 1

Principal diagnosis-dehydration.E 86.0 IS THE ICD 10 CM CODE OF -hypokalemia. ICD -10-CM code of this condition is E 87.

Secondary diagnosis=pneumonia.ICD -10-CM code j18

PRINCIPAL PROCEDURE= infuse iv fluids and medication for dehydration and hypokalemia.first we need to trat this condition so priorit should be given for this intervention.

Secondary procedure-administration of antibiotics to reduce infection due to pneumonia.