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Indiana · Snapshot 2026

IC 16-36-5-20: Health care provider liability

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  1. TITLE 16. HEALTH
  2. ARTICLE 36. MEDICAL CONSENT
  3. 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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