ICD-11 classes
19 Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
Respiratory disorders specific to the perinatal or neonatal...
KB26 — Neonatal aspiration syndromes
KB26.0 — Neonatal aspiration of meconium
ICD-11 KB26.0 — Neonatal aspiration of meconium
Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (MAS) is defined as respiratory distress in an infant born through meconium-stained amniotic fluid with roentgenographic findings consistent with MAS and whose symptoms could not be otherwise explained.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 2 items.
- Meconium passage during delivery (KA05.8)
- Meconium staining (KD38)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.