Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00247:reg:7
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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 acute meniscal tear of the knee and death from acute meniscal tear of the knee.
Meaning of acute meniscal tear of the knee
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute meniscal tear of the knee:
(a)          means an injury causing tearing of a meniscus of the knee joint resulting in a sudden onset of pain and tenderness; and
(b)          excludes chronic tear and degenerative disease of the meniscus.
Note: Acute meniscal tear of the knee may be accompanied by the following symptoms and signs occurring within the 24 hours following the injury: pain exacerbated by twisting or pivoting movements, swelling, locking, or loss of functional ability.
(3)          While acute meniscal tear of the knee attracts ICD‑10‑AM code S83.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of acute meniscal tear of the knee 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 acute meniscal tear of the knee
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute meniscal tear of the knee, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's acute meniscal tear of the knee.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.