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SENATE BILL NO. 352 Offered January 25, 1994 A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2987.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate orders. ---------- Patrons--Houck; Delegates: Abbitt and Davies ---------- Referred to the Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 54.1-2987.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 54.1-2987.1. Authorization to follow Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Orders in the pre-hospital setting.

Qualified emergency medical services and emergency department personnel shall be authorized to follow Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Orders pertaining to adult qualified patients in the pre-hospital out-of-hospital or emergency department setting in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board of Health, if the order available to such personnel is in a form approved by the Board of Health.

For the purposes of this section, qualified patients shall include (i) patients who have been diagnosed by the attending physician to be afflicted with a terminal condition and (ii) patients for whom the attending physician has issued a Do Not Resuscitate Order.

This section shall not authorize emergency medical personnel to follow an Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Order for any patient who is able to, and does, express to such personnel the desire to be resuscitated prior to cardiac or respiratory arrest.