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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 frostbite and death from frostbite.
Meaning of frostbite
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, frostbite:
(a)          means a thermal injury involving the freezing of skin, subcutaneous tissues or deep tissues; and
(b)          excludes hypothermia and other cold injuries not associated with the freezing of tissues.
(3)          While frostbite attracts ICD‑10‑AM code T33, T34 or T35, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of frostbite 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 frostbite
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, frostbite, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's frostbite.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.