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The Standardised Mini-Mental State Examination (SMMSE) tool is available at: https://www.ihpa.gov.au/what-we-do/standardised-mini-mental-state-examination-smmse by opening the page and clicking on the heading "Standard Mini-Mental Examination (SMMSE) tool".

6 Conditions of a catastrophic injury
  For the purposes of the definition of catastrophic injury in subsection 4(1) of the Act, an injury is a catastrophic injury if both of the following conditions are satisfied:

       (a)   the injury results in an impairment assessed by a FIMTM credentialed medical or health care professional at a score of 5 or less on any of the items on the FIMTM score sheet;

       (b)   the Commission is satisfied that the injury is:

           (i)                 a catastrophic nerve injury; or

           (ii)               a catastrophic brain injury; or

           (iii)            a catastrophic amputation injury; or

           (iv)             a catastrophic burn injury; or

           (v)               a catastrophic blindness injury.

7 Catastrophic nerve injury
  An injury is a catastrophic nerve injury if the injury is a lesion of the spinal cord, cauda equina, brachial plexus, lumbosacral plexus, cervical plexus or coccygeal plexus which results in one or more of the following:

       (a)   sensory deficit;

       (b)   motor deficit;

       (c)   bladder dysfunction;

       (d)   bowel dysfunction.

8 Catastrophic brain injury
  An injury is a catastrophic brain injury if the injury results in an impairment of cognitive, physical or psychosocial functions and it results in:

        (a)   one or more of the following:

           (i)         a period of post traumatic amnesia of at least 7 days;

           (ii)       a significant brain imaging abnormality;

           (iii)    a score for the Standardised Mini-Mental State Examination (SMMSE) tool of less than 25; or

        (b)   damage to the brain similar in effect and severity to that referred to in subparagraph (a)(i), (ii) or (iii).

9 Catastrophic amputation injury
   An injury is a catastrophic amputation injury if the injury results in:

        (a)   one or more of the following:

           (i)         a forequarter amputation;

           (ii)       a shoulder disarticulation;

           (iii)     a hindquarter amputation;

           (iv)     a hip disarticulation;

           (v)       an amputation involving the loss of 65% or more of the length of the femur; or

        (b)   the loss of at least two of the following:

           (i)         50% or more of the length of the tibia of the left leg;

           (ii)       50% or more of the length of the tibia of the right leg;

           (iii)       the thumb of the left hand at or above the first metacarpophalangeal joint;

           (iv)        the thumb of the right hand at or above the first metacarpophalangeal joint.

10 Catastrophic burn injury
    An injury is a catastrophic burn injury if the injury is:

        (a)     full thickness burns:

           (i)       for a person aged 16 years or above at the time of the injury–greater than 40 per cent of the total body surface area; or

           (ii)     for a person aged under 16 years at