When called to render emergency medical services, EMS personnel must not use any resuscitative treatment if the patient has a 'do not resuscitate order for emergency services' and the document is presented to the EMS personnel upon their arrival or if the patient is wearing a do not resuscitate bracelet. EMS personnel must provide that degree of palliative care called for under the circumstances which exist at the time treatment is rendered. HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 485, Section 2; 2016 Act No. 233 (H.4773), Section 4, eff June 3, 2016.
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