Proper E code for Diabetic with Ketoacidosis

What is the proper e-Code – Oh, that's an e-Code for a diabetic with ketoacidosis due to malfunction of insulin pump, pump failed to deliver insulin causing ketoacidosis?

There's a bunch of research, but she said E-code. I didn't put in E-code. I'll have to think about that. I can probably come up with it from memory.

So, diabetic with ketoacidosis due to failure of insulin pump. Now, what you have to think about when you're doing something where when you're coding for something, when you're coding and something goes wrong, think complication. The terminology that you're going to use to look up the codes is Complication. There's a whole great section in the index under Complication. So, when you look under Complication and then you look up "insulin" and then it will say insulin pump, you're going to find 996.57 -medical complication due to insulin pump. Select this code to report the mechanical failure of an insulin pump — a device used by diabetics that injects insulin to the blood stream in intervals to regulate blood sugar levels.

If you're familiar with a diabetic sliding scale, if you're heard that term before; and what that is, if you're looking at a prescription for insulin, it will usually say, maybe 10 cc's. They've take it in the afternoon and the evening but every morning they take 5 cc's, and that's because you want more insulin as you're more active; and when you wake up in the morning you haven't been active so you don't need as much insulin. But, let's say a person has all kinds of things going on with their blood sugar so their insulin goes up and down, up and down, and they use a sliding scale. So, they check their sugar before they eat their lunch. If it's 175 to 200, they use x amount of insulin. If it's 200 to 250, they use x amount of insulin. They have this like 10-point little grid, you'd say, of how much insulin to go per what their blood sugar is.

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