144A.2 DEFINITIONS.
Except as otherwise provided, as used in this chapter:
1. "Adult" means an individual eighteen years of age or
older.
2. "Attending physician" means the physician selected by, or
assigned to, the patient who has primary responsibility for the
treatment and care of the patient.
3. "Declaration" means a document executed in accordance with
the requirements of section 144A.3.
4. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
5. "Emergency medical care provider" means emergency medical
care provider as defined in section 147A.1.
6. "Health care provider" means a person, including an
emergency medical care provider, who is licensed, certified, or
otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to
administer health care in the ordinary course of business or in the
practice of a profession.
7. "Hospital" means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
8. "Life-sustaining procedure" means any medical procedure,
treatment, or intervention, including resuscitation, which meets both
of the following requirements:
a. Utilizes mechanical or artificial means to sustain,
restore, or supplant a spontaneous vital function.
b. When applied to a patient in a terminal condition, would
serve only to prolong the dying process.
"Life-sustaining procedure" does not include the provision of
nutrition or hydration except when required to be provided
parenterally or through intubation or the administration of
medication or performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary
to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain.
9. "Out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order" means a written
order signed by a physician, executed in accordance with the
requirements of section 144A.7A and issued consistent with this
chapter, that directs the withholding or withdrawal of resuscitation
when an adult patient in a terminal condition is outside the
hospital.
10. "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine
and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state.
11. "Qualified patient" means a patient who has executed a
declaration or an out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order in
accordance with this chapter and who has been determined by the
attending physician to be in a terminal condition.
12. "Resuscitation" means any medical intervention that
utilizes mechanical or artificial means to sustain, restore, or
supplant a spontaneous vital function, including but not limited to
chest compression, defibrillation, intubation, and emergency drugs
intended to alter cardiac function or otherwise to sustain life.
13. "Terminal condition" means an incurable or irreversible
condition that, without the administration of life-sustaining
procedures, will, in the opinion of the attending physician, result
in death within a relatively short period of time or a state of
permanent unconsciousness from which, to a reasonable degree of
medical certainty, there can be no recovery.
Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 3, § 3; 92 Acts, ch 1132, § 1--3; 2002 Acts, ch 1061,
§1; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §141
Referred to in § 144C.2
144A.2 DEFINITIONS.
Except as otherwise provided, as used in this chapter:
1. "Adult" means an individual eighteen years of age or
older.
2. "Attending physician" means the physician selected by, or
assigned to, the patient who has primary responsibility for the
treatment and care of the patient.
3. "Declaration" means a document executed in accordance with
the requirements of section 144A.3.
4. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
5. "Emergency medical care provider" means emergency medical
care provider as defined in section 147A.1.
6. "Health care provider" means a person, including an
emergency medical care provider, who is licensed, certified, or
otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to
administer health care in the ordinary course of business or in the
practice of a profession.
7. "Hospital" means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
8. "Life-sustaining procedure" means any medical procedure,
treatment, or intervention, including resuscitation, which meets both
of the following requirements:
a. Utilizes mechanical or artificial means to sustain,
restore, or supplant a spontaneous vital function.
b. When applied to a patient in a terminal condition, would
serve only to prolong the dying process.
"Life-sustaining procedure" does not include the provision of
nutrition or hydration except when required to be provided
parenterally or through intubation or the administration of
medication or performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary
to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain.
9. "Out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order" means a written
order signed by a physician, executed in accordance with the
requirements of section 144A.7A and issued consistent with this
chapter, that directs the withholding or withdrawal of resuscitation
when an adult patient in a terminal condition is outside the
hospital.
10. "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine
and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state.
11. "Qualified patient" means a patient who has executed a
declaration or an out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order in
accordance with this chapter and who has been determined by the
attending physician to be in a terminal condition.
12. "Resuscitation" means any medical intervention that
utilizes mechanical or artificial means to sustain, restore, or
supplant a spontaneous vital function, including but not limited to
chest compression, defibrillation, intubation, and emergency drugs
intended to alter cardiac function or otherwise to sustain life.
13. "Terminal condition" means an incurable or irreversible
condition that, without the administration of life-sustaining
procedures, will, in the opinion of the attending physician, result
in death within a relatively short period of time or a state of
permanent unconsciousness from which, to a reasonable degree of
medical certainty, there can be no recovery.
Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 3, § 3; 92 Acts, ch 1132, § 1--3; 2002 Acts, ch 1061,
§1; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §141
Referred to in § 144C.2
144A.2 DEFINITIONS.
Except as otherwise provided, as used in this chapter:
1. "Adult" means an individual eighteen years of age or
older.
2. "Attending physician" means the physician selected by, or
assigned to, the patient who has primary responsibility for the
treatment and care of the patient.
3. "Declaration" means a document executed in accordance with
the requirements of section 144A.3.
4. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
5. "Emergency medical care provider" means emergency medical
care provider as defined in section 147A.1.
6. "Health care provider" means a person, including an
emergency medical care provider, who is licensed, certified, or
otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to
administer health care in the ordinary course of business or in the
practice of a profession.
7. "Hospital" means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
8. "Life-sustaining procedure" means any medical procedure,
treatment, or intervention, including resuscitation, which meets both
of the following requirements:
a. Utilizes mechanical or artificial means to sustain,
restore, or supplant a spontaneous vital function.
b. When applied to a patient in a terminal condition, would
serve only to prolong the dying process.
"Life-sustaining procedure" does not include the provision of
nutrition or hydration except when required to be provided
parenterally or through intubation or the administration of
medication or performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary
to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain.
9. "Out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order" means a written
order signed by a physician, executed in accordance with the
requirements of section 144A.7A and issued consistent with this
chapter, that directs the withholding or withdrawal of resuscitation
when an adult patient in a terminal condition is outside the
hospital.
10. "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine
and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state.
11. "Qualified patient" means a patient who has executed a
declaration or an out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order in
accordance with this chapter and who has been determined by the
attending physician to be in a terminal condition.
12. "Resuscitation" means any medical intervention that
utilizes mechanical or artificial means to sustain, restore, or
supplant a spontaneous vital function, including but not limited to
chest compression, defibrillation, intubation, and emergency drugs
intended to alter cardiac function or otherwise to sustain life.
13. "Terminal condition" means an incurable or irreversible
condition that, without the administration of life-sustaining
procedures, will, in the opinion of the attending physician, result
in death within a relatively short period of time or a state of
permanent unconsciousness from which, to a reasonable degree of
medical certainty, there can be no recovery.
Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 3, § 3; 92 Acts, ch 1132, § 1--3; 2002 Acts, ch 1061,
§1; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §141
Referred to in § 144C.2
