The department of health shall adopt guidelines and protocols for how emergency medical personnel shall respond when summoned to the site of an injury or illness for the treatment of a person who has signed a written directive or durable power of attorney requesting that he or she not receive futile emergency medical treatment.
The guidelines shall include development of a simple form that shall be used statewide.
[ 2000 c 70 § 1; 1992 c 98 § 14.]
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Application—1992 c 98: See RCW 70.122.915.