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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about sleep apnoea and death from sleep apnoea.
Meaning of sleep apnoea
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, sleep apnoea:
(a)          means chronic sleep-related disordered breathing characterised by periods of cessation or reduction in airflow in the upper airway, leading to arousals from sleep and disrupted sleep architecture, which has been diagnosed by a specialist physician; and
(b)          includes:
                (i)            central sleep apnoea;
                (ii)         mixed sleep apnoea; and
                (iii)       obstructive sleep apnoea.
                Note 1: Clinical consequences of sleep apnoea include excessive daytime sleepiness, impaired memory, difficulty concentrating, morning headache, pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure and respiratory failure.
                Note 2: central sleep apnoea, obstructive sleep apnoea and upper airway are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(3)          While sleep apnoea attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G47.30, G47.31, G47.32, G47.33 or G47.39, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of sleep apnoea 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 sleep apnoea
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, sleep apnoea, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's sleep apnoea.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.