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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 sinus barotrauma and death from sinus barotrauma.
Meaning of sinus barotrauma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, sinus barotrauma means an injury to a paranasal sinus arising from inequalities in the barometric pressure between the surrounding atmosphere and the air within the sinus cavity.
Note:  Clinical manifestations typically include inflammation, oedema, or haemorrhage of the mucosa of a paranasal sinus and less commonly fracture of a sinus wall, subcutaneous emphysema of the orbit or pneumocephalus.
(3)          While sinus barotrauma attracts ICD‑10‑AM code T70.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of sinus barotrauma 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 sinus barotrauma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, sinus barotrauma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's sinus barotrauma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.