Chapter DHS 125
DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDERS DIRECTED AT EMERGENCY
HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL
DHS 125.01 Authority and purpose. DHS 125.02 Applicability. DHS 125.04 Do-not-resuscitate bracelet. DHS 125.05 Following do-not-resuscitate orders. Ch. DHS 125 NoteNote: Chapter HFS 125 was created as an emergency rule effective January 18, 1997. Chapter HFS 125 was renumbered chapter DHS 125 under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 1., Stats., and corrections made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register January 2009 No. 637. DHS 125.01DHS 125.01 Authority and purpose. This chapter is promulgated under the authority of ss. 154.19 (3) (a) and 154.27, Stats., to establish requirements for the size, color and design of a do-not-resuscitate bracelet worn by a qualified patient for whom a do-not-resuscitate order has been written by the attending physician under s. 154.19 (1), Stats., at the patient’s request, and which is to be followed by emergency health care personnel in the event of the patient suffering cardiac or pulmonary arrest, and to establish procedures for emergency health care personnel to follow in honoring a do-not-resuscitate order. DHS 125.01 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 1997, No. 499, eff. 8-1-97. DHS 125.02DHS 125.02 Applicability. This section applies to any person providing health care as an emergency medical services practitioner or an emergency medical responder, or within an emergency health care facility. DHS 125.03DHS 125.03 Definitions. In this section: DHS 125.03(1)(1) “Ambulance run report form” means the form that the ambulance service provider under s. DHS 110.34 (7) and (8) requires emergency medical technicians to complete at the end of each ambulance run. DHS 125.03 NoteNote: An ambulance run report is also known as a patient care report.
DHS 125.03(2)(2) “Department” means the Wisconsin department of health services. DHS 125.03(3)(3) “Do-not-resuscitate bracelet” means a standardized identification bracelet of uniform size, color and design approved by the department, that bears the inscription “Do Not Resuscitate” which signifies that the wearer is a qualified patient, as defined in s. 154.17 (4), Stats., who has requested and obtained a do-not-resuscitate order and has not revoked the request for the order. DHS 125.03(4)(4) “Do-not resuscitate order” means a written order issued by a physician under the requirements of subch. III of ch. 154, Stats., that directs emergency health care personnel not to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a person for whom the order is issued if that person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest. DHS 125.03(5)(5) “Emergency health care facility staff” means staff of a hospital emergency room or an urgent care clinic whose duties are to render emergency medical care to sick, disabled or injured persons conveyed to the facility. DHS 125.03(5m)(5m) “Emergency health care personnel” means emergency medical services practitioners, emergency medical responders, and emergency health care facility staff.