T79.0
ICD-10Non-billable categoryAir embolism (traumatic)
Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)
Air embolism (traumatic)
T79.0 is a category heading, not a billable code. CMS does not accept it on a claim; report one of the more specific codes beneath it.
Excludes1
Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.
- air embolism complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.2)
- air embolism complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O88.0)
- air embolism following infusion, transfusion, and therapeutic injection (T80.0)
- air embolism following procedure NEC (T81.7-)
Related codes in T79
- T79.1Fat embolism (traumatic)category
- T79.2Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seromacategory
- T79.4Traumatic shockcategory
- T79.5Traumatic anuriacategory
- T79.6Traumatic ischemia of musclecategory
- T79.7Traumatic subcutaneous emphysemacategory
- T79.ATraumatic compartment syndromecategory
- T79.8Other early complications of traumacategory
- T79.9Unspecified early complication of traumacategory
Where this code sits
- Parent code
- T79
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ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order” (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.