Terms Used In Michigan Laws 333.1058

  • Attending physician: means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
  • Declarant: means an individual who has executed a do-not-resuscitate order on his or her own behalf or on whose behalf a do-not-resuscitate order has been executed as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
  • order: means a document executed under this act directing that, if an individual suffers cessation of both spontaneous respiration and circulation in a setting outside of a hospital, resuscitation will not be initiated. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
  An attending physician who signs a declarant‘s do-not-resuscitate order under section 3, 3a, or 3b shall immediately obtain a copy or a duplicate of the executed order and make that copy or duplicate part of the declarant’s permanent medical record.