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 1051.30 - Physician destruction of out-of-hospital DNR order, bracelet or necklace

(a) Destruction of order, bracelet and necklace. A physician shall destroy an out-of-hospital DNR order, bracelet or necklace returned to the physician under § 1051.29 (relating to duty to contact patient or surrogate), as follows:

(b) Documentation of order when items not destroyed. A physician who requests the return of an out-of-hospital DNR order, bracelet or necklace under § 1051.29 may not mark copies of the order in the physician's possession as having been revoked without having destroyed, or confirmed from a reliable person the destruction of the original out-of-hospital DNR order and any out-of-hospital DNR bracelet or necklace the physician provided for the patient.