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 1051.29 - Duty to contact patient or surrogate

Universal Citation: 28 PA Code ยง 1051.29
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024

If a physician who issued an out-of-hospital DNR order for the patient subsequently determines that the diagnosis that the patient is in a terminal condition or is permanently unconscious was in error, the physician shall make every reasonable effort to promptly contact the patient or the patient's surrogate to disclose the error. The physician shall also request the return of the order, and the bracelet and necklace if the physician provided those items.

This section cited in 28 Pa. Code § 1051.30 (relating to physician destruction of out-of-hospital DNR order, bracelet or necklace).

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