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20-13-901. Definitions.
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20-13-901. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Attending physician” has the meaning provided in § 20-17-201;
(2) [Repealed.]
(3) [Repealed.]
(4) “Do Not Resuscitate Identification” means a standardized identification card, form, necklace, or bracelet of uniform size and design, approved by the Department of Health, that signifies:
(A) That the possessor has executed an advance directive as provided in § 20-17-202 which specifically addresses the cardiopulmonary resuscitation option of health care and which has not been revoked; or
(B) That the possessor's attending physician has issued an Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Order for the possessor and has documented the grounds for the order in the possessor's medical file;
(5)(A) “Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Order” means a written physician's order in a form approved by the department which authorizes qualified emergency medical services personnel to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a particular patient in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
(B) For the purposes of this subchapter, “cardiopulmonary resuscitation” or “CPR” shall include cardiac compression, endotracheal intubation and other advanced airway management, artificial ventilation, defibrillation, administration of cardiac resuscitation medications, and related procedures.
(C)(i) Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Orders shall not authorize the withholding of other medical interventions such as intravenous fluids, oxygen, nutrition or hydration, or both, or other indicated therapies short of cardiopulmonary resuscitation unless the therapies are also specified by advance directive or durable power of attorney for health care to be withheld.
(ii) The Emergency Medical Servi
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-13-901
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20-13-901. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Attending physician” has the meaning provided in § 20-17-201;
(2) [Repealed.]
(3) [Repealed.]
(4) “Do Not Resuscitate Identification” means a standardized identification card, form, necklace, or bracelet of uniform size and design, approved by the Department of Health, that signifies:
(A) That the possessor has executed an advance directive as provided in § 20-17-202 which specifically addresses the cardiopulmonary resuscitation option of health care and which has not been revoked; or
(B) That the possessor's attending physician has issued an Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Order for the possessor and has documented the grounds for the order in the possessor's medical file;
(5)(A) “Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Order” means a written physician's order in a form approved by the department which authorizes qualified emergency medical services personnel to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a particular patient in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
(B) For the purposes of this subchapter, “cardiopulmonary resuscitation” or “CPR” shall include cardiac compression, endotracheal intubation and other advanced airway management, artificial ventilation, defibrillation, administration of cardiac resuscitation medications, and related procedures.
(C)(i) Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Orders shall not authorize the withholding of other medical interventions such as intravenous fluids, oxygen, nutrition or hydration, or both, or other indicated therapies short of cardiopulmonary resuscitation unless the therapies are also specified by advance directive or durable power of attorney for health care to be withheld.
(ii) The Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Orders shall not authorize the withholding of therapies deemed necessary to provide comfort care or alleviate pain;
(6) “Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Protocol” means a standardized method of procedure, approved by the State Board of Health and adopted in the rules of the department, for the withholding of emergency life-sustaining procedures by emergency medical services personnel;
(7) “Emergency medical services personnel” means paid or volunteer firefighters, law enforcement officers, first responders, emergency medical technicians, or other emergency service personnel acting within the ordinary course of their professions;
(8)(A) “Healthcare facility” means any institution, building, or agency or portion thereof, private or public, excluding federal facilities, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated, or designed to provide health services, medical treatment, or nursing, rehabilitative, or preventive care to any person or persons.
(B) “Healthcare facility” includes, but is not limited to, ambulatory surgical facilities, health maintenance organizations, home health agencies, hospices, hospitals, infirmaries, kidney treatment centers, long-term care facilities, medical assistance facilities, mental health centers, outpatient facilities, public health centers, rehabilitation facilities, residential treatment facilities, and adult day care centers;
(9) “Life-sustaining procedure” means cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and
(10) “Physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine in this state pursuant to the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq.
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17-95-201. Short title.
Sections 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq., shall be known as the “Arkansas Medical Practices Act”.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-95-201
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17-95-301. Creation — Members.
(a) There is created the Arkansas State Medical Board.
(b)(1)(A) The board shall consist of fourteen (14) members appointed by the Governor for terms of six (6) years.
(B) The Governor shall consider diversity of practice specialties and geographical areas of practice in making appointments to the board.
(2)(A)(i) Ten (10) members shall be duly qualified, licensed, and active medical practitioners and appointed by the Governor after consulting the Arkansas Medical Society, Inc., and subject to confirmation by the Senate.
(ii) At least two (2) members shall be appointed from each of the state's four (4) congressional districts.
(iii) Two (2) members shall be appointed at large.
(B) Congressional district representation required under this subdivision (b)(2) shall be achieved by appointment as vacancies occur.
(3) One (1) member shall be a licensed practicing physician in this state and shall be appointed by the Governor after consulting the Physicians' Section of the Arkansas Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association, Inc. and subject to confirmation by the Senate.
(4) Two (2) members of the board shall not be actively engaged in or retired from the practice of medicine. One (1) member shall represent consumers, and one (1) member shall be sixty (60) years of age or older and shall represent the elderly. Both shall be appointed from the state at large subject to confirmation by the Senate. The two (2) positions may not be held by the same person. Both shall be full voting members but shall not participate in the grading of examinations.
(5) One (1) member shall be a duly qualified, licensed, and practicing osteopathic physician and appointed after consulting the Arkansas Osteopathic Medical Association and subject
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-95-301
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20-17-201. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Attending physician” means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient;
(2)(A) “Declaration” means a writing executed in accordance with the requirements of § 20-17-202(a).
(B) “Declaration” is an advance directive under § 20-6-102;
(3) “Healthcare provider” means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the law of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession;
(4) “Healthcare proxy” is a person eighteen (18) years old or older appointed by the patient as attorney-in-fact to make healthcare decisions including the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment if a qualified patient, in the opinion of the attending physician, is permanently unconscious, incompetent, or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication;
(5) “Life-sustaining treatment” means any medical procedure or intervention that, when administered to a qualified patient, will serve only to prolong the process of dying or to maintain the patient in a condition of permanent unconsciousness;
(6) “Permanently unconscious” means a lasting condition, indefinitely without change in which thought, feeling, sensations, and awareness of self and environment are absent;
(7) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity;
(8) “Physician” means an individual licensed to practice medicine in this state;
(9) “Qualified patient” means a patient eighteen (18) or more years of age who has executed a declaration or appointed a healthcare proxy and who ha
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-17-201
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20-17-202. Declaration relating to use of life-sustaining treatment.
(a)(1) An individual of sound mind and eighteen (18) or more years of age may execute at any time a declaration governing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. The declaration must be signed by the declarant, or another at the declarant's direction, and witnessed by two (2) individuals.
(2) A declaration executed under this section before July 1, 2017, is valid if the declaration substantially complies with subdivision (a)(1) of this section.
(3) A declaration executed under this section on and after July 1, 2017, is valid if the declaration document:
(A) Is notarized but does not have two (2) witnesses; or
(B) Satisfies the requirements of the Arkansas Healthcare Decisions Act, § 20-6-101 et seq.
(b) A declaration may be, but need not be, in the following form in the case where the patient has a terminal condition:
“DECLARATION “If I should have an incurable or irreversible condition that will cause my death within a relatively short time, and I am no longer able to make decisions regarding my medical treatment, I direct my attending physician, pursuant to the Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act, to [withhold or withdraw treatment that only prolongs the process of dying and is not necessary to my comfort or to alleviate pain] [follow the instructions of whom I appoint as my Health Care Proxy to decide whether life-sustaining treatment should be withheld or withdrawn]. It is my specific directive that nutrition may be withheld after consultation with my attending physician. It is my specific directive that hydration may be withheld after consultation with my attending physician. It is my specific directive that nutrition may not be w
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-17-202
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-17-202. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.