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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-17-206

Treatment of qualified patient

Acts 1987, No. 713, § 6; 2003, No. 1322, § 8.

(1) A qualified patient may make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment as long as the patient is able to do so.

(2) This subchapter does not affect the responsibility of the attending physician or other healthcare provider to provide treatment, including nutrition or hydration, or both, for a patient's comfort or alleviation of pain.

(3) The declaration of a qualified patient known to the attending physician to be pregnant must not be given effect as long as it is possible that the fetus could develop to the point of live birth with continued application of life-sustaining treatment.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.