PFA Critical Illness - children typically covers the following diagnoses:

  1. Heart disease that requires surgery
  2. Life-threatening cardiac valve irregularities with the implantation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
  3. Cerebral haemorrhage or blood clot in the brain (apoplexy) with permanent sequelae
  4. Sac-like protrusion of an artery of the brain (aneurysm) or intracranial vascular malformation (AV malformation) including cavernous angioma that requires surgery
  5. Cancer with the exception of less aggressive types
  6. Cancer in the blood and blood-forming organs with the exception of less aggressive types
  7. Certain benign tumours in the brain and spinal cord where surgery is necessary
  8. Disseminated sclerosis (DS)
  9. Chronic renal failure
  10. Major organ transplant
  11. Muscular atrophy (myopathy and neuropathy) with lasting progressive symptoms
  12. Inflammation of the brain or cerebrospinal meningitis (including Borrelia and TBE) resulting in considerable neurological sequelae
  13. Major burns (ambustio), frostbite or corrosive burns that cover at least 10 % of the child’s body surface
  14. Terminal illness
  15. Type 1 diabetes.