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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about immersion pulmonary oedema and death from immersion pulmonary oedema.
Meaning of immersion pulmonary oedema
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, immersion pulmonary oedema means:
(a)          a condition in which acute pulmonary oedema develops while swimming or diving; and
(b)           excludes acute pulmonary oedema attributed to pulmonary decompression sickness, acute myocardial infarction or an acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure.
Note: Immersion pulmonary oedema typically presents with breathlessness, cough, haemoptysis, pink frothy sputum and hypoxaemia.
Death from immersion pulmonary oedema
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, immersion pulmonary oedema, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's immersion pulmonary oedema.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.