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Emergency medical services - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5445

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     § 5445.  Emergency medical services.
        (a)  General rule.--An emergency medical services provider
     shall, in the course of providing care to a principal, at all
     times comply with the instructions of an authorized medical
     command physician to withhold or discontinue cardiopulmonary
     resuscitation for a principal whose living will has become
     operative under section 5443(a) (relating to when living will
     operative).
        (b)  Applicability.--This section is applicable only in those
     instances where an out-of-hospital DNR order is not in effect
     under section 5484 (relating to orders, bracelets and
     necklaces).

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