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F13.4: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of sedatives or hypnotics Withdrawal state with delirium

You have withdrawal symptoms from sedatives or sleeping pills. The withdrawal alters your state of consciousness.

Sedatives have a tranquilizing effect. Sedatives include, for example, the benzodiazepine group. Sleeping pills help people to sleep. Sleeping pills include, for example, the barbiturates class of drugs.

Before this kind of withdrawal the person has usually consumed too many sedatives or sleeping pills over a long period of time. When someone goes through withdrawal, they have various physical symptoms, because they are consuming fewer or no sedatives or sleeping pills. They may have shaky hands, for example. Their heart may also be racing and they may have a headache.

The withdrawal also alters your state of consciousness. For example, your awareness and memory may alter. One may also no longer know who or where one is.

Additional indicator

On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.

  • G: Confirmed diagnosis
  • V: Tentative diagnosis
  • Z: Condition after
  • A: Excluded diagnosis
  • L: Left
  • R: Right
  • B: Both sides

Further information

Note

This information is not intended for self-diagnosis and does not replace professional medical advice from a doctor. If you find an ICD code on a personal medical document, please also note the additional indicator used for diagnostic confidence.
Your doctor will assist you with any health-related questions and explain the ICD diagnosis code to you in a direct consultation if necessary.

Source

Provided by the non-profit organization “Was hab’ ich?” gemeinnützige GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).