IC 16-36-5-20: Health care provider liability
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 16. HEALTH
- ARTICLE 36. MEDICAL CONSENT
- Chapter 5. Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Declarations
Sec. 20. A health care provider who in good faith and in accordance with reasonable medical standards:
(1) participates in the withholding or withdrawal of CPR from a declarant:
(A) by whom an out of hospital DNR declaration and order has been executed under this chapter; or
(B) who has revoked an out of hospital DNR declaration and order when the health care provider has no notice of the revocation; or
(2) provides CPR to a declarant:
(A) when the health care provider has no notice of the out of hospital DNR declaration and order; or
(B) after a revocation of an out of hospital DNR declaration and order;
is not subject to criminal or civil liability and may not be found to have committed an act of unprofessional conduct.
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