T75.4: Effects of electric current
Your health has been damaged by contact with an electrical current.
If someone comes into contact with an electrical current, their health can be damaged in different ways. How severe the damage is depends, for example, on the strength of the current and the duration of the shock. Your heart may then beat too quickly, too slowly, or irregularly, for example. You may also have pain the area that came into contact with the current. The skin can also suffer burns. Muscles can also be damaged.
In serious cases, circulatory collapse can occur. The heart pumps blood through the blood vessels to the body. The blood then flows back to the heart through other blood vessels. Together, the heart and the blood vessels form the blood circulatory system. Blood supplies oxygen and nutrients to the tissue in the body. With a circulatory collapse, the heart stops pumping blood around the body.
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).