Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L00200:reg:7
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Provision Reference: reg 7
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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 accidental hypothermia and death from accidental hypothermia.
Meaning of accidental hypothermia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, accidental hypothermia:
(a)          means the unintentional lowering of core body temperature to 35 degrees Celsius or lower due to exposure to cold environmental temperature, in an individual without a primary disturbance of thermoregulation; and
(b)          excludes intentionally induced hypothermia and hypothermia due to a toxicologic or pharmacologic cause.
(3)          While accidental hypothermia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code T68, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of accidental hypothermia 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 accidental hypothermia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, accidental hypothermia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's accidental hypothermia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.