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pneumonia;
(b)           respiratory failure;
(c)           cardiac arrest;
(d)           circulatory failure; or
(e)           cessation of brain function.
                                  thyrotoxic crisis means a constellation of severe and life-threatening symptoms of rapid onset in a patient with biochemical evidence of elevated thyroid hormones. Characteristic symptoms and signs are fever, marked tachycardia, heart failure, tremor, nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea, dehydration, restlessness, extreme agitation, delirium and coma.
Note 1: Thyrotoxic crisis is also known as thyroid storm.
         Note 2: Thyrotoxic crisis may be the first presentation of undiagnosed hyperthyroidism or thyrotoxicosis, or may complicate existing hyperthyroidism or thyrotoxicosis.
                                  thyrotoxicosis—see subsection 7(3).
                                  trauma involving the thyroid gland means:
(a)          a blunt injury or burn injury resulting in soft tissue damage adjacent to or overlying the thyroid gland; or
(b)          a penetrating injury, including surgery, to the region of the thyroid gland; or
(c)          direct trauma to the thyroid gland.
                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.