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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 chilblains and death from chilblains.
Meaning of chilblains
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chilblains:
            (a)          means painful, localised erythema and inflammatory swelling from the reaction of the small blood vessels in the skin to exposure to non-freezing cold; and
            (b)           excludes non-freezing cold injury, frostnip and frostbite.
Note 1:               Chilblains are also known as pernios or perniosis.
            Note 2: Chilblains manifest as erythematous to violaceous macules, papules, plaques or nodules in sites of cold exposure. Symptoms of pruritus, pain or burning often accompany the skin lesions, and complications of blistering, ulceration or secondary infection may occur. The most common sites for involvement are the fingers and toes, but other sites such as the legs, hands, nose, face and ears may also be affected.
(3)          While chilblains attracts ICD‑10‑AM code T69.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of chilblains 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 chilblains
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chilblains, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's chilblains.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.