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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 subarachnoid haemorrhage and death from subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Meaning of subarachnoid haemorrhage
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, subarachnoid haemorrhage:
(a)          means bleeding into the intracranial subarachnoid space; and
(b)          excludes an extension of bleeding into the subarachnoid space from a cerebral tumour or from an intracerebral haemorrhage.
(3)          While subarachnoid haemorrhage attracts ICD‑10‑AM code I60 or S06.6, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of subarachnoid haemorrhage 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 subarachnoid haemorrhage
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, subarachnoid haemorrhage, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.