IC 16-36-6-5: "Qualified person"
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 16. HEALTH
- ARTICLE 36. MEDICAL CONSENT
- Chapter 6. Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (POST)
Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "qualified person" refers to an individual who has at least one (1) of the following:
(1) An advanced chronic progressive illness.
(2) An advanced chronic progressive frailty.
(3) A condition caused by injury, disease, or illness from which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty:
(A) there can be no recovery; and
(B) death will occur from the condition within a short period without the provision of life prolonging procedures.
(4) A medical condition that, if the person were to suffer cardiac or pulmonary failure, resuscitation would be unsuccessful or within a short period the person would experience repeated cardiac or pulmonary failure resulting in death.
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