Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 71.32 - Mental Health Advance Directives.
71.32.160 - Electroconvulsive therapy.

RCW 71.32.160
Electroconvulsive therapy.

Where a principal consents in a directive to electroconvulsive therapy, the health care provider, professional person, or health care facility, or persons acting under the direction of the health care provider, professional person, or health care facility, shall document the therapy and the reason it was used in the principal's medical record.

[ 2003 c 283 § 16.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 71 - Behavioral Health

Chapter 71.32 - Mental Health Advance Directives.

71.32.010 - Legislative declaration—Findings.

71.32.020 - Definitions.

71.32.030 - Construction of definitions.

71.32.040 - Presumption of capacity.

71.32.050 - Execution of directive—Scope.

71.32.060 - Execution of directive—Elements—Effective date—Expiration.

71.32.070 - Prohibited elements.

71.32.080 - Revocation—Waiver.

71.32.090 - Witnesses.

71.32.100 - Appointment of agent.

71.32.110 - Determination of capacity.

71.32.120 - Action to contest directive.

71.32.130 - Determination of capacity—Reevaluations of capacity.

71.32.140 - Refusal of admission to inpatient treatment—Effect of directive.

71.32.150 - Compliance with directive—Conditions for noncompliance.

71.32.160 - Electroconvulsive therapy.

71.32.170 - Providers—Immunity from liability—Conditions.

71.32.180 - Multiple directives, agents—Effect—Disclosure of court orders.

71.32.190 - Preexisting, foreign directives—Validity.

71.32.200 - Fraud, duress, undue influence—Appointment of guardian.

71.32.210 - Execution of directive not evidence of behavioral health disorder or lack of capacity.

71.32.220 - Requiring directive prohibited.

71.32.230 - Coercion, threats prohibited.

71.32.240 - Other authority not limited.

71.32.250 - Long-term care facility residents—Readmission after inpatient behavioral health treatment—Evaluation, report to legislature.

71.32.260 - Form.

71.32.270 - Family-initiated treatment.

71.32.902 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.