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Y60-Y69 ICD-10-CA block: Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care

Y60-Y69 isn’t a code on its own. Choose one of the 51 codes beneath it, the one the documentation supports.

Official description

Y60-Y69

Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y60-Y69)

ICD-10-CA · Canada

Codes in Y60-Y69

Y60-Y69 isn’t a code on its own. Open the group that matches what the note documents.

Y60Unintentional cut, puncture, perforation or haemorrhage during surgical and medical care (10 codes)Y61Foreign object accidentally left in body during surgical and medical care (10 codes)Y62Failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care (9 codes)Y63Failure in dosage during surgical and medical care (9 codes)Y64Contaminated medical or biological substances (4 codes)Y65Other misadventures during surgical and medical care (7 codes)Y66Nonadministration of surgical and medical careY69Unspecified misadventure during surgical and medical care

Notes for Y60-Y69

As CIHI prints them, with any note Y60-Y69 takes from the headings above it.

Includes

  • Complications of medical devicescorrect drug properly administered in therapeutic or prophylactic dosage as the cause of any adverse effectmisadventures to patients during surgical and medical caresurgical and medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of the patient, or of later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedureFrom Y40-Y84 Complications of medical and surgical care

Excludes

Conditions classified elsewhere.

  • Breakdown or malfunctioning of medical device (during procedure) (after implantation) (ongoing use) (Y70-Y82)medical devices associated with adverse incidents due to external causes classified elsewhere (V01-Y59, Y85-Y87, Y89)surgical and medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of the patient, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedure (Y83-Y84)
  • Accidental overdose of drug or wrong drug given or taken in error (X40-X44)From Y40-Y84 Complications of medical and surgical care

Note

  • This chapter, which in previous revisions of ICD constituted a supplementary classification, permits the classification of environmental events and circumstances as the cause of injury, poisoning and other adverse effects. Where a code from this section is applicable, it is intended that it shall be used in addition to a code from another chapter of the Classification indicating the nature of the condition. Most often, the condition will be classifiable to Chapter XIX, Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98). Causes of death should preferably be tabulated according to both Chapter XIX and Chapter XX, but if only one code is tabulated then the code from Chapter XX should be used in preference. Other conditions that may be stated to be due to external causes are classified in Chapters I to XVIII. For these conditions, codes from Chapter XX should be used to provide additional information for multiple-condition analysis only.From Chapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98)

Where Y60-Y69 sits

  1. 1ChapterChapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98)
  2. 2Block Y40-Y84Complications of medical and surgical care
  3. 3Block Y60-Y69Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care

Source and release

Data release
ICD-10-CA · FY 2026–2027
Effective date
Apr 1, 2026
Publisher
CIHI

This page is built from the ICD-10-CA catalog that Vero Codes reads when it suggests codes: Canadian Institute for Health Information’s FY 2026–2027 release, imported from the publisher’s file and checked against it. The description, notes and structured data come from the same record.

See Y60-Y69 in the CIHI source

Frequently asked questions

Is Y60-Y69 a valid ICD-10-CA code?

No. Y60-Y69 (Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care) is a block heading in CIHI’s ICD-10-CA FY 2026–2027 release. It holds 51 codes; record the one the documentation supports.

Where is Y60-Y69 in ICD-10-CA?

Y60-Y69 sits under Y40-Y84 Complications of medical and surgical care, within Chapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98).

What coding notes apply to Y60-Y69?

ICD-10-CA lists Excludes, Includes, Note notes for Y60-Y69, including those from the headings it sits under. They are listed on this page with where each one comes from.

Which ICD-10-CA release does this page use?

It uses CIHI’s FY 2026–2027 release, in effect from Apr 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2027. It is a reference: confirm the code against the current list and the payer’s rules before you submit it.

Codes beside Y60-Y69

Y40-Y59Drugs, medicaments and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic useY70-Y82Medical devices associated with adverse incidents in diagnostic and therapeutic useY83-Y84Surgical and other medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of the patient, or of later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedure