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the following:
(a)           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 toxic goitre or may complicate existing toxic goitre.
                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.