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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 carpal tunnel syndrome and death from carpal tunnel syndrome.
Meaning of carpal tunnel syndrome
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, carpal tunnel syndrome means an entrapment neuropathy of the median nerve at the wrist producing altered sensation, pain or weakness of the hand.
(3)          While carpal tunnel syndrome attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G56.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of carpal tunnel syndrome 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 carpal tunnel syndrome
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, carpal tunnel syndrome, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's carpal tunnel syndrome.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.