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Chapter XX
Inhalation and ingestion of food causing obstruction of respiratory tract - W79
[See pages 1013-1017 for fourth-character subdivisions]
Includes:
food [including bone or seed]:
- asphyxia by
- choked on
- suffocation by
- aspiration and inhalation of food [any] (into respiratory tract) NOS
by food in oesophagus:
- compression of trachea
- interruption of respiration
- obstruction of respiration
- obstruction of pharynx by food (bolus)
Excludes:
- inhalation of vomitus ( W78.- )
- injury, except asphyxia or obstruction of respiratory tract, caused by food ( W44.- )
- obstruction of oesophagus by food without mention of asphyxia or obstruction of respiratory tract ( W44.- )
Related drugs:
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