Missouri Laws 190.612 – Emergency medical services personnel to comply with order, when — physician ..
1. Emergency medical services personnel are authorized to comply with the outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate protocol when presented with an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate identification or an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order. However, emergency medical services personnel shall not comply with an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order or the outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate protocol when the patient or patient’s representative expresses to such personnel in any manner, before or after the onset of a cardiac or respiratory arrest, the desire to be resuscitated.
2. (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, emergency medical services personnel are authorized to comply with the outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate protocol when presented with a do-not-resuscitate order functioning as an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order for a patient under eighteen years of age if such do-not-resuscitate order has been authorized by one parent or legal guardian or by a juvenile or family court under the provisions of section 191.250.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 190.612
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Guardian: if used in a section in a context relating to property rights or obligations, means conservator of the estate as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(2) Emergency medical services personnel shall not comply with a do-not-resuscitate order or the outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate protocol when the patient under eighteen years of age, either parent of such patient, the patient’s legal guardian, or the juvenile or family court expresses to such personnel in any manner, before or after the onset of a cardiac or respiratory arrest, the desire for the patient to be resuscitated.
3. If a physician or a health care facility other than a hospital admits or receives a patient with an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate identification or an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order, and the patient or patient’s representative has not expressed or does not express to the physician or health care facility the desire to be resuscitated, and the physician or health care facility is unwilling or unable to comply with the outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order, the physician or health care facility shall take all reasonable steps to transfer the patient to another physician or health care facility where the outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order will be complied with.