Texas Statutes
Subchapter E. Health Care Facility Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders
Section 166.205. Revocation of Do-Not-Resuscitate Order; Limitation of Liability

Sec. 166.205. REVOCATION OF DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDER; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. (a) A physician providing direct care to a patient for whom a DNR order is issued shall revoke the patient's DNR order if the patient or, as applicable, the patient's agent under a medical power of attorney or the patient's legal guardian if the patient is incompetent:
(1) effectively revokes an advance directive, in accordance with Section 166.042, for which a DNR order is issued under Section 166.203(a); or
(2) expresses to any person providing direct care to the patient a revocation of consent to or intent to revoke a DNR order issued under Section 166.203(a).
(b) A person providing direct care to a patient under the supervision of a physician shall notify the physician of the request to revoke a DNR order under Subsection (a).
(c) A patient's attending physician may at any time revoke a DNR order issued under Section 166.203(a)(2).
(d) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, a person is not civilly or criminally liable for failure to act on a revocation described by or made under this section unless the person has actual knowledge of the revocation.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 11 (S.B. 11), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2018.

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