ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Disorders of consciousness
MB20.1 — Coma
ICD-11 MB20.1 — Coma
Acute state lasting more than one hour and usually less than a month. The comatose patient is unresponsive, lying with their eyes closed and cannot be aroused even by vigorous and noxious stimuli. Motor responses to noxious stimulation are limited to reflexive behaviour. Etiologies include but are not limited to traumatic, anoxic, infectious, neoplastic, vascular, inflammatory and metabolic brain injuries.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 5 items.
- Diabetic coma (5A23)
- Hepatic coma (DB99.5)
- Neonatal coma (KB03)
- Nondiabetic hypoglycaemic coma (5A41)
- chronic uremic coma (GB61)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: