F05Delirium, not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances
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- Chapter V
- Mental and behavioural disorders
- Group F00-F09
- Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders
- Official Vietnamese name
- Mê sảng, không do rượu và/hoặc chất hướng thần khác
- Additional WHO coding guidance
- An etiologically nonspecific organic cerebral syndrome characterized by concurrent disturbances of consciousness and attention, perception, thinking, memory, psychomotor behaviour, emotion, and the sleep-wake schedule. The duration is variable and the degree of severity ranges from mild to very severe. Incl.: acute or subacute: brain syndrome confusional state (nonalcoholic) infective psychosis organic reaction psycho-organic syndrome Excl.: delirium tremens, alcohol- induced or unspecified
Related F05 codes
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- Use one primary-diagnosis code and record only relevant additional conditions.
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- Do not infer a diagnosis beyond the clinical record.
2026 regulatory basis
Indicators are taken from columns 24–29 of the classification accompanying Circular 06/2026/TT-BYT, cross-referenced with Decision 1849/QĐ-BYT and Official Dispatch 4059/BYT-BH.