Pennsylvania Code
Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Part VII - Emergency Medical Services
Subpart B - Matters Anciliary to Emergency Medical Services Systems
Chapter 1051 - OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DO-NOT-RECUSCITATE ORDERS
ATTENDING PHYSICIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Section 1051.27 - Providing out-of-hospital DNR bracelet or necklace
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) Bracelet and necklace. A patient's attending physician may provide to the patient, or to the patient's surrogate for the patient, an out-of-hospital DNR bracelet or necklace, or both, if the physician has issued or is issuing an out-of-hospital DNR order for the patient and the patient or the surrogate requests the item.
(b) Order also required. A patient's attending physician may not provide an out-of-hospital DNR bracelet or necklace for the patient without also issuing, or having issued, an out-of-hospital DNR order for the patient.
(c) Department vendor. A patient's attending physician may provide to or for the patient only an out-of-hospital DNR bracelet or necklace produced by a vendor with which the Department has contracted to produce the bracelet or necklace.
