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Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETYPart VII - Emergency Medical ServicesSubpart B - Matters Anciliary to Emergency Medical Services SystemsChapter 1051 - OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DO-NOT-RECUSCITATE ORDERS
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Section 1051.29 - Duty to contact patient or surrogate

28 Pa. Code § 1051.29

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Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 40, October 5, 2024
Section 1051.29 - Duty to contact patient or surrogate

If a physician who issued an out-of-hospital DNR order for the patient subsequently determines that the diagnosis that the patient is in a terminal condition or is permanently unconscious was in error, the physician shall make every reasonable effort to promptly contact the patient or the patient's surrogate to disclose the error. The physician shall also request the return of the order, and the bracelet and necklace if the physician provided those items.

28 Pa. Code § 1051.29

The provisions of this §1051.29 amended February 6, 2004, effective 2/7/2004, 34 Pa.B. 677.

This section cited in 28 Pa. Code § 1051.30 (relating to physician destruction of out-of-hospital DNR order, bracelet or necklace).