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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 carotid artery disease and death from carotid artery disease.
Meaning of carotid artery disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, carotid artery disease:
(a)          means an occlusion, stenosis, aneurysm, dissection or arteriovenous fistula of the common, internal or external carotid artery that warrants medical treatment; and
(b)          includes carotid atherosclerosis and non-atherosclerotic carotid artery disease.
(3)          While carotid artery disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code I65.2, I70.8, I72.0 or I77.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of carotid artery disease 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 carotid artery disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, carotid artery disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's carotid artery disease.
            Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.