Wiki TBI coding for unsciousness

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If a patient comes in with a severe head injury and gets intubated/sedated because of the severe head injury. Sometimes intubation takes place at the scene of the accident and we don't know length of unconsciousness because we've subsequently sedated/treated them do we code with an unconsciousness of unspecified duration code or use a diagnosis code for however many hours the patient is sedated and unconscious?
 
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