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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 Guillain-Barre syndrome and death from Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Meaning of Guillain-Barre syndrome
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Guillain-Barre syndrome:
(a)          means an acute or subacute immune-mediated disorder of the peripheral nervous system producing symptoms and signs of impaired motor, sensory or autonomic functioning; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy;
(ii)         acute motor axonal neuropathy;
(iii)       acute motor sensory axonal neuropathy;
(iv)        Miller Fisher syndrome; and
(v)          other variant forms of Guillain-Barre syndrome; and
(c)          excludes chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
             Note 1: The most common variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome is acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, which is characterised by rapidly progressive symmetrical limb weakness, loss of tendon reflexes, mild sensory signs and variable autonomic dysfunction.
             Note 2: The diagnosis of Guillain-Barre syndrome is normally confirmed by electrodiagnostic testing or elevated protein concentration in cerebrospinal fluid without an elevated white cell count (cytoalbuminologic dissociation).
(3)          While Guillain-Barre syndrome attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G61.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of Guillain-Barre syndrome 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 Guillain-Barre syndrome
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Guillain-Barre syndrome, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's Guillain-Barre syndrome.
            Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.