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2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [21] XXI COURTS - PROBATE - JUVENILE
Chapter 2133: MODIFIED UNIFORM RIGHTS OF THE TERMINALLY ILL ACT AND THE DNR IDENTIFICATION AND DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDER LAW
2133.06 [Effective Until1/13/2012] Patient to make decisions on use of life-sustaining treatment.


OH Rev Code § 2133.06 What's This?

(A) As long as a qualified patient is able to make informed decisions regarding the administration of life-sustaining treatment, he may continue to do so.

(B) Life-sustaining treatment shall not be withheld or withdrawn from a declarant pursuant to a declaration if she is pregnant and if the withholding or withdrawal of the treatment would terminate the pregnancy, unless the declarant’s attending physician and one other physician who has examined the declarant determine, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty and in accordance with reasonable medical standards, that the fetus would not be born alive.

Effective Date: 10-10-1991

This section is set out twice. See also § 2133.06, as amended by 129th General Assembly File No. 52, SB 124, § 1, eff. 1/13/2012.

2133.06 [Effective1/13/2012] Patient to make decisions on use of life-sustaining treatment

(A) As long as a qualified patient is able to make informed decisions regarding the administration of life-sustaining treatment, the qualified patient may continue to do so.

(B) Life-sustaining treatment shall not be withheld or withdrawn from a declarant pursuant to a declaration if the declarant is pregnant and if the withholding or withdrawal of the treatment would terminate the pregnancy, unless the declarant’s attending physician and one other physician who has examined the declarant determine, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty and in accordance with reasonable medical standards, that the fetus would not be born alive.

Amended by 129th General Assembly File No. 52, SB 124, § 1, eff. 1/13/2012.

Effective Date: 10-10-1991

This section is set out twice. See also § 2133.06, effective until 1/13/2012.

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