Brady Branson was delivered today via vaginal delivery at 40 weeks. Brady was a large baby at 4,700 grams, and forceps were used to extract him during the delivery. Brady suffered from scalp injury due to the forceps. What are the correct codes to assign?

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- Z38.00 (Single liveborn infant, delivered vaginally)
- P03.2 (Newborn affected by other injury of scalp)
- P08.0 (Disorder related to long gestation and high birth weight, not elsewhere classified)

Code P03.2 specifies that the scalp injury was due to trauma at birth, and code P08.0 is appropriate for a large baby. The Z38 codes are used to indicate the outcome of delivery, and in this case, it was a single, live vaginal birth.

Brady Branson Was Delivered Today Via Vaginal Delivery at 40