50-10-101. Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Attending physician" has the meaning provided in 50-9-102.
     (2) "Board" means the state board of medical examiners.
     (3) "Department" means the department of public health and human services provided for in 2-15-2201.
     (4) "DNR identification" means a standardized identification card, form, necklace, or bracelet of uniform size and design, approved by the department, that signifies that the possessor is a qualified patient, as defined in 50-9-102, or that the possessor's attending physician has issued a do not resuscitate order for the possessor and has documented the grounds for the order in the possessor's medical file.
     (5) "Do not resuscitate order" means a directive from a licensed physician that emergency life-sustaining procedures should not be administered to a particular person.
     (6) "Do not resuscitate protocol" means a standardized method of procedure, approved by the board and adopted in the rules of the department, for the withholding of emergency life-sustaining procedures by physicians and emergency medical services personnel.
     (7) "Emergency medical services personnel" has the meaning provided in 50-9-102.
     (8) "Health care facility" has the meaning provided in 50-5-101.
     (9) "Life-sustaining procedure" means cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
     (10) "Physician" means a person licensed under Title 37, chapter 3, to practice medicine in this state.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 581, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 286, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 103, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 278, Ch. 546, L. 1995.