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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
1. A patient or patient's representative and the patient's attending physician may execute an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order through the presentation of a properly executed outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order from another state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States, or a Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences (TPOPP)/Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form containing a specific do-not-resuscitate section.
2. Any outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate form identified from another state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States, or a TPOPP/POLST form, shall:
(1) Have been previously reviewed and approved by the department as in compliance with the provisions of sections 190.600 to 190.621;
(2) Not be accepted for a patient under eighteen years of age, except as allowed under section 191.250; and
(3) Not be effective during such time as the patient is pregnant as set forth in section 190.609.
A patient or patient's representative may express to emergency medical services personnel, at any time and by any means, the intent to revoke the outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order.
3. The provisions of section 190.606 shall apply to the good faith acts or omissions of emergency medical services personnel under this section.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Missouri Revised Statutes Title XII. Public Health and Welfare § 190.613. Out-of-state order, physician may execute order, when - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/mo/title-xii-public-health-and-welfare/mo-rev-st-190-613/
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