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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about trigger finger and death from trigger finger.
Meaning of trigger finger
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, trigger finger, also known as stenosing flexor tenosynovitis, means a tendon entrapment of one or more digits, where enlargement of the tendon or narrowing of its flexor pulley sheath leads to the tendon being unable to slide smoothly within the sheath.
Note:  Trigger finger typically presents with catching and locking during flexion or extension of the affected digit.
(3)          While trigger finger attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M65.3, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of trigger finger is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from trigger finger
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, trigger finger, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's trigger finger.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.