§ 23-4.10-1.1 - Definitions.
SECTION 23-4.10-1.1
§ 23-4.10-1.1 Definitions. – The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter:
(1) "Advance directive protocol" means a standardized,state-wide method developed for emergency service personnel by the departmentof health and approved by the ambulance service advisory board, of providingpalliative care to, and withholding life-sustaining procedures from, aqualified patient.
(2) "Artificial feeding" means the provision of nutrition orhydration by parenteral, nasogastric, gastric, or any means other than throughper oral voluntary sustenance.
(3) "Attending physician" means the physician who has primaryresponsibility for the treatment and care of the patient.
(4) "Director" means the director of health.
(5) "Durable power of attorney" means a witnessed documentexecuted in accordance with the requirements of § 23-4.10-2.
(6) "Emergency medical services personnel" means paid orvolunteer firefighters, law enforcement officers, first responders, emergencymedical technicians, or other emergency services personnel acting within theordinary course of their professions.
(7) "Health-care provider" means a person who is licensed,certified, or otherwise authorized by the law of this state to administerhealth care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.
(8) "Life-sustaining procedure" means any medical procedureor intervention that, when administered to a patient, will serve only toprolong the dying process. "Life-sustaining procedure" shall not include anymedical procedure or intervention considered necessary by the attendingphysician or emergency service personnel to provide comfort, care, or alleviatepain.
(9) "Person" means an individual, corporation, businesstrust, estate, trust, partnership, association, government, governmentalsubdivision or agency, or any other legal entity.
(10) "Physician and/or doctor" means an individual licensedto practice medicine in this state.
(11) "Terminal condition" means an incurable or irreversiblecondition that, without the administration of life-sustaining procedures, will,in the opinion of the attending physician, result in death.