Wiki Status post heimlich?

cosita

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I'm totally stumped.
Setting is ED. Coding for the facility side.
Kid choked on a chicken nugget, turned blue, heimlich was administered and then child brought into the ed.
My chargers are for a chest xray with the indication post heimlich maneuver
Final dx is normal exam after choking.

My brain is mush on this one and I literally have nothing maybe v12.79.

This is my first week of ed coding and the dx's are way different than the surgeries and clinic visits that I'm used to.
 
It doesn't seem appropriate to me because it's not a current condition. The reason she got off of the couch and went to the emergency department wasn't because she was choking, it's because she had choked.
 
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