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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 subdural haematoma and death from subdural haematoma.
Meaning of subdural haematoma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, subdural haematoma:
(a)          means bleeding into the space between the dura mater and the arachnoid mater in the skull or spinal cord; and
(b)          includes acute and chronic forms of subdural haematoma; and
(c)          excludes bleeding from a neoplasm and an extension of bleeding into the subdural space from subarachnoid haemorrhage or from an intracerebral haemorrhage.
(3)          While subdural haematoma attracts ICD‑10‑AM code S06.5 or I62.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of subdural haematoma 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 subdural haematoma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, subdural haematoma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's subdural haematoma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.