Effective: January 13, 2012
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly
(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(B) Life-sustaining treatment shall not be withheld or withdrawn from a declarant pursuant to a declaration if the declarant is pregnant and if the withholding or withdrawal of the treatment would terminate the pregnancy,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.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile
Section 2133.01 | Modified Uniform Rights of Terminally Ill Act Definitions.
Section 2133.02 | Declaration Relating to Use of Life-Sustaining Treatment.
Section 2133.03 | When Declaration Operative.
Section 2133.04 | Revocation of Declaration.
Section 2133.05 | Duty of Attending Physician.
Section 2133.06 | Patient to Make Decisions on Use of Life-Sustaining Treatment.
Section 2133.07 | Using Pre-Printed Form.
Section 2133.08 | Consenting to Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment From Patient.
Section 2133.10 | Transfer of Patients.
Section 2133.12 | Miscellaneous Provisions.
Section 2133.13 | When Health Care Provider May Presume Validity of Declaration.
Section 2133.14 | Recognition of Declaration Executed in Another State.
Section 2133.15 | Document Executed Prior to Effective Date of Provisions.
Section 2133.21 | Dnr Identification and Do-Not-Resuscitate Order Law Definitions.
Section 2133.211 | Authority and Immunity of Nurses and Physician Assistants.
Section 2133.23 | Compliance With Dnr Order.