IC 27-1-37.5-3.7: "Emergency health care service"

Sec. 3.7. As used in this chapter, "emergency health care service" means a health care service that is provided in an emergency facility after the sudden onset of a medical condition that manifests itself by symptoms of sufficient severity, including severe pain, that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected by a prudent layperson who possesses average knowledge of health and medicine to:

(1) place an individual's health in serious jeopardy;

(2) result in serious impairment to the individual's bodily function; or

(3) result in serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part of the individual.