Indiana § 16-36-6-5 "Qualified person"

Indiana Statutes

§ 16-36-6-5 — "Qualified person"

Indiana·Title 16 HEALTH·Art. 36 MEDICAL CONSENT·Ch. 6 Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (POST)

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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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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