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§63-3131.8.
§63-3131.8.
A. No health care provider, health care agency, or individual employed
by, acting as the agent of, or under contract with any such health
care provider, health care agency, or individual shall be subject to
criminal prosecution, civil liability, or discipline for
unprofessional conduct for carrying out in good faith a
do-not-resuscitate consent or order authorized by the Oklahoma
Do-Not-Resuscitate Act on behalf of a person as instructed by the
person or representative or for those actions taken in compliance with
the standards and procedures set forth in the Oklahoma
Do-Not-Resuscitate Act.
B. No health care provider, health care agency, individual employed
by, acting as agent of, or under contract with any such health care
provider, health care agency or individual or other individual who
witnesses a cardiac or respiratory arrest shall be subject to criminal
prosecution, civil liability or discipline for unprofessional conduct
for providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a person for whom a
do-not-resuscitate consent or order has been issued; provided, that
such individual:
1. Reasonably and in good faith was unaware of the issuance of a
do-not-resuscitate consent or order; or
2. Reasonably and in good faith believed that consent to a do-
not-resuscitate order had been revoked or canceled.
C. Any physician who refuses to issue a do-not-resuscitate order at a
person's request or any health care provider or health care agency who
refuses to comply with a do-not-resuscitate consent or order entered
pursuant to the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act shall take reasonable
steps to advise the person or representative of the person promptly
that the physician is unwilling to effectuate the consent or order and
shall as promptly as practicable take all reasonable steps to arrange
care of the person by another physician or health care provider.
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