Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368w - Removal of Life Support Systems and Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment

Section 19a-570. - Definitions. - For purposes of this section and sections 19a-571 to 19a-580g,...

Section 19a-571. - Liability re removal of life support system of incapacitated patient. Consideration of wishes of patient. - (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this...

Section 19a-572. - Failure to execute document creates no presumption re wishes of patient. - Sections 19a-571 and 19a-573 to 19a-575a, inclusive, create no presumption...

Section 19a-573. - Comfort care and pain alleviation to be provided. Documents executed prior to October 1, 1991. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 19a-571, 19a-572, 19a-575, 19a-575a,...

Section 19a-574. - Nonapplicability to pregnant patient. - Section 19a-574 is repealed, effective May 24, 2018. (P.A. 85-606,...

Section 19a-575. - Form of document re health care instructions and withdrawal or withholding of life support systems. - Any person eighteen years of age or older may execute...

Section 19a-576. - Appointment of health care representative. - (a) Any person eighteen years of age or older may...

Section 19a-577. - Form of document re appointment of health care representative. - Any person eighteen years of age or older may execute...

Section 19a-578. - Proof of living will document or document appointing health care representative. Physician to make documents and oral communications re health care and withdrawal of life support systems part of medical record. - (a) Any or all of the attesting witnesses to any...

Section 19a-579. - When living will or appointment of health care representative becomes operative. Disclosure of physician's determination of incapacity. - A living will or appointment of health care representative becomes...

Section 19a-579a. - Revocation of living will. Absence of knowledge of revocation. - (a) A living will may be revoked at any time...

Section 19a-579b. - Revocation of appointment of spouse as health care representative upon divorce or legal separation. - The appointment of the principal's spouse as health care representative...

Section 19a-580. - Notification of certain persons prior to removal of life support system. - Within a reasonable time prior to withholding or causing the...

Section 19a-580a. - Transfer of patient when attending physician or health care provider unwilling to comply with wishes of patient. - An attending physician or health care provider who is unwilling...

Section 19a-580b. - Prohibition re requiring living will or appointment of health care representative as condition of treatment or health benefits. - No physician, health care provider or health care insurer shall...

Section 19a-580c. - Probate Court jurisdiction over disputes re provisions concerning withholding or withdrawal of life support systems or other medical treatment and capacity of health care representative. Health care representative's standing to ch... - (a) The probate court for the district in which the...

Section 19a-580d. - Do not resuscitate orders. Definition. Regulations. - (a) For purposes of this section, “do not resuscitate order”...

Section 19a-580e. - Conservator's duty to comply with conserved person's health care instructions or other wishes. Precedence of health care representative's decisions. Exceptions. - (a) Except as authorized by a court of competent jurisdiction,...

Section 19a-580f. - Validity of advance directives, appointments of health care agent and powers of attorney for health care decisions executed before October 1, 2006. - (a) An advance directive properly executed prior to October 1,...

Section 19a-580g. - Validity of advance directives executed in other states or foreign countries. - Health care instructions or appointment of a health care proxy...

Section 19a-580h. - Medical orders for life-sustaining treatment program. Regulations. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Medical order for...

Section 19a-580i. - Medical orders for life-sustaining treatment advisory council. - There is established, within available appropriations, a medical orders for...