When called to render emergency medical services, EMS personnel must not use any resuscitative treatment if the patient has a "do not resuscitate order for emergency services" and the document is presented to the EMS personnel upon their arrival or if the patient is wearing a do not resuscitate bracelet. EMS personnel must provide that degree of palliative care called for under the circumstances which exist at the time treatment is rendered.
S.C. Code Ann. § 44-78-25
Duties of EMS personnel when presented with "do not resuscitate order"
Known as the Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Order Act
The act spans §§ 44–44 (11 sections).
1994 Act No. 485, SECTION 2; 2016 Act No. 233 (H.4773), SECTION 4, eff June 3, 2016.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.