What is Acute Stress Disorder ICD 10?

Acute Stress Disorder ICD 10 (ASD) is a brief psychological response to a traumatic event. It appears within days of being subjected to considerable stress, such as an accident, assault, catastrophe, or witnessing a fatality. Acute stress disorder ICD 10 has many of the same symptoms as PTSD, but they are worse and usually go away within a month.

The Diagnostic criteria of Acute Stress Disorder ICD 10, According to DSM 5-TR is:

Diagnostic Criteria A.

Individual have exposure to serious injury or any life threatening event in one or more than one of following ways:

1. Individual experienced any traumatic event directly.
2. Individual witnessed the traumatic event occurred to others.
3. Individual learned traumatic event occurred to close family members or friend.
4. Individual repetitively experienced exposure to traumatic event.

Note: This exposure to traumatic event is not through media, television or social media.

Diagnostic Criteria B.

For the diagnosis of Acute Stress Disorder nine of following symptoms form given five categories must present in individual.

1. Intrusive Symptoms:

• Experiencing involuntary and recurrent distressing memories of traumatic events.
• Distressing dreams related to traumatic events.
• Dissociative reactions like flash backs of traumatizing events.
• Significant psychological distress and physiological reaction in response traumatic event.
• Lack of positive emotions and unable to experience happiness.
• 2. Dissociative Symptoms

• Changed sense of reality or seeing oneself from another perspective.
• Unable to remember important details of traumatic events. This could be sue to dissociative amnesia, head injury or drug.
• Individual try to avoid distressing events, thoughts and memories.
• Individual try to avoid external reminders of trauma like places, people and memories.
• 3. Arousal Symptoms:

• Individual have difficulty sleep or have restless sleep.
• Individual have anger outbursts.
• Individual experienced Hyper vigilance.
• Individual have lack of concentration.
• Individual have either exaggerated or startled responses.

Diagnostic Criteria C.

The duration of symptoms mentioned in Diagnostic criteria B is three days to one month after experiencing traumatic event.

Diagnostic Criteria D.

The above mentioned symptoms cause significant distress in social and functional efficiency of individual.

Diagnostic Criteria E.

These disturbances in behavior are not due to physiological effect of any substance.

What are causes of Acute Stress Disorder ICD 10?

When someone goes through a stressful event that involves threat, harm, or severe dread, they have acute stress disorder. Some of the most common causes are:

1. Natural disasters like floods and earthquakes.
2. A serious accident or injury.
3. Violent attacks or combat experience.
4. Death of a loved one without warning.
5. Medical emergencies or surgery.

When someone goes through trauma, their body and mind go into survival mode, which includes things like being overly alert, feeling numb, and being detached. ICD 10 says that these reactions may be signs of acute stress disorder if they last longer than a few hours or days and make it hard to do normal things.