Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L01487:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L01487
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 1719–4121

7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about moderate to severe traumatic brain injury and death from moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
Meaning of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, moderate to severe traumatic brain injury:
(a)          means damage to the brain resulting from the transfer of kinetic energy to the brain from external physical forces, as manifested by at least one of the following:
                (i)            loss of consciousness for more than 30 minutes;
                (ii)         anterograde amnesia for more than 24 hours;
                (iii)       an intracranial lesion, including an abnormality attributable to the injury seen on structural imaging (conventional magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography scanning);
                (iv)        penetration of the dura mater; or
                (v)          a Glasgow Coma Scale score of less than 13; and
(b)          excludes injury from radiation, electricity, heat and surgery.
Note:  This Statement of Principles applies to moderate to severe traumatic brain injury only.  Trauma to the brain can cause other diseases or injuries, and these are covered by a range of other Statements of Principles in which trauma to the brain (variously worded) is listed as a risk factor.  The relevant Statements of Principles include but are not limited to: accommodation disorder, Alzheimer disease, anosmia, arachnoid cyst, bruxism, cerebrovascular accident, deep vein thrombosis, dementia pugilistica, epilepsy, epileptic seizure, female sexual dysfunction, hypopituitarism, Meniere's disease, narcolepsy, optochiasmatic arachnoiditis, Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism, periodic limb movement disorder, pulmonary thromboembolism, schizophrenia, subarachnoid haemorrhage, subdural haematoma, suicide and attempted suicide, and trigeminal neuropathy.
Death from moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.