Code of Massachusetts Regulations
110 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Title 110 CMR 11.00 - Medical Authorizations
Section 11.03 - Emergency Medical Care
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1) "Medical emergency" means any immediately life threatening condition and shall include but is not limited to the following conditions.
(2) Possibility that a disease may deteriorate to an irreversible condition at an uncertain but relatively distant date is not an emergency. See In the Matter of Guardianship of Richard Roe, III, 421 N.E.2d 40, 55; 383 Mass. 415 (1981). In determining whether a medical emergency exists the relevant time period to be examined begins when the claimed emergency arises, and ends when the individual who seeks to act in the emergency could, with reasonable diligence, obtain parental consent or judicial review, as applicable.
(3) Consent. When there is a medical emergency, no one's consent is required in order to allow a child to receive necessary medical care. See M.G.L. c. 112, § 12F.
