2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 450B - Emergency Medical Services
NRS 450B.590 - Limitations on effect of
NRS 450B.400 to 450B.590, inclusive. The provisions of NRS 450B.400 to 450B.590, inclusive, do not:
1. Require a physician or other provider of health care to take action contrary to reasonable medical standards;
2. Condone, authorize or approve mercy killing, euthanasia or assisted suicide;
3. Substitute for any other legally authorized procedure by which a person may direct that the person not be resuscitated in the event of a cardiac or respiratory arrest;
4. Affect or impair any right created pursuant to the provisions of NRS 449.535 to 449.690, inclusive; or
5. Affect the right of a qualified patient to make decisions concerning the use of life-resuscitating treatment, if he or she is able to do so, or impair or supersede a right or responsibility of a person to affect the withholding of medical care in a lawful manner.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 291)
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