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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 otitis externa and death from otitis externa.
Meaning of otitis externa
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, otitis externa:
(a)          means an infectious or non-infectious inflammation of the external auditory canal; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            acute diffuse otitis externa;
(ii)         acute localised otitis externa (furunculosis);
(iii)       eczematous otitis externa;
(iv)        malignant otitis externa;
(v)          acquired cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal; and
(vi)        otomycosis.
Note 1: Otitis externa may be acute or chronic.
                Note 2: Typical symptoms of otitis externa include ear pain, pruritus, discharge and hearing loss.
                Note 3: Otitis externa may be accompanied by inflammation of the auricle.
                Note 4: otomycosis is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(3)          While otitis externa attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H60, H62.0, H62.1, H62.2, H62.3 or H62.4, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of otitis externa 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 otitis externa
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, otitis externa, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's otitis externa.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.