1. A physician, physician's designee, or physician assistant, who gives orders, either directly or via communications equipment from some other point, to an appropriately certified advanced emergency medical care provider at the scene of an emergency, and an appropriately certified advanced emergency medical care provider following the orders, are not subject to criminal liability by reason of having issued or executed the orders, and are not liable for civil damages for acts or omissions relating to the issuance or execution of the orders unless the acts or omissions constitute recklessness.
2. A physician, physician's designee, physician assistant, or advanced emergency medical care provider shall not be subject to civil liability solely by reason of failure to obtain consent before rendering emergency medical, surgical, hospital or health services to any individual, regardless of age, when the patient is unable to give consent for any reason and there is no other person reasonably available who is legally authorized to consent to the providing of such care.
3. An act of commission or omission of any appropriately certified advanced emergency medical care provider or physician assistant while rendering advanced emergency medical care under the responsible supervision and control of a physician to a person who is deemed by them to be in immediate danger of serious injury or loss of life, shall not impose any liability upon the certified advanced emergency medical care provider or physician assistant, the supervising physician, or any hospital, or upon the state, or any county, city or other political subdivision, or the employees of any of these entities; provided that this section shall not relieve any person of liability for civil damages for any act of commission or omission which constitutes recklessness.
[C79, 81, § 147A.10]
84 Acts, ch 1287, § 10; 89 Acts, ch 89, § 13; 93 Acts, ch 107, § 3
Referred to in § 147A.12
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