Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 166.081. Definitions

(1) Repealed by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1228, § 8.

(2) “DNR identification device” means an identification device specified by department rule under Section 166.101 that is worn for the purpose of identifying a person who has executed or issued an out-of-hospital DNR order or on whose behalf an out-of-hospital DNR order has been executed or issued under this subchapter.

(3) “Emergency medical services” has the meaning assigned by Section 773.003.

(4) “Emergency medical services personnel” has the meaning assigned by Section 773.003.

(5) “Health care professionals” means physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and emergency medical services personnel and, unless the context requires otherwise, includes hospital emergency personnel.

(6) “Out-of-hospital DNR order”:

(7) “Out-of-hospital setting” means a location in which health care professionals are called for assistance, including long-term care facilities, in-patient hospice facilities, private homes, hospital outpatient or emergency departments, physician's offices, and vehicles during transport.

(8) “Proxy” means a person designated and authorized by a directive executed or issued in accordance with Subchapter B to make a treatment decision for another person in the event the other person becomes incompetent or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication.

(9) “Qualified relatives” means those persons authorized to execute or issue an out-of-hospital DNR order on behalf of a person who is incompetent or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication under Section 166.088.

(10) “Statewide out-of-hospital DNR protocol” means a set of statewide standardized procedures adopted by the executive commissioner under Section 166.101(a) for withholding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and certain other life-sustaining treatment by health care professionals acting in out-of-hospital settings.