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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 acute pancreatitis and death from acute pancreatitis.
Meaning of acute pancreatitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute pancreatitis means an acute inflammatory condition due to auto-digestion of pancreatic tissue by its own enzymes.
            Note: Acute pancreatitis typically presents with abdominal pain.  It is usually associated with raised levels of pancreatic enzymes in blood or urine.
(3)          While acute pancreatitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K85, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of acute pancreatitis 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 acute pancreatitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute pancreatitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's acute pancreatitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.