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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and death from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
Meaning of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo means recurrent episodes of vertigo lasting less than one minute that are provoked by specific types of head movements, together with the observation of nystagmus during a provoking manoeuver or evidence of response to treatment with repositioning manoeuvers.
(3)          While benign paroxysmal positional vertigo attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H81.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo 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), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.