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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 methaemoglobinaemia and death from methaemoglobinaemia.
Meaning of methaemoglobinaemia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, methaemoglobinaemia:
(a)          means a greater than normal amount of methaemoglobin in the blood as a result of the oxidation of haem iron to the ferric state, making it less able to bind with oxygen; and
(b)           causes clinical manifestations such as cyanosis, headache or fatigue; and
(c)           includes the heterozygous form of NADH-methaemoglobin reductase deficiency restricted to red blood cells but excludes other forms of congenital methaemoglobinaemia.
(3)          While methaemoglobinaemia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D74, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of methaemoglobinaemia 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 methaemoglobinaemia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, methaemoglobinaemia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's methaemoglobinaemia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.