449.680 - Other right or responsibility regarding use of life-sustaining treatment or withholding or withdrawal of medical care not limited.

449.680  Other right or responsibility regarding use of life-sustaining treatment or withholding or withdrawal of medical care not limited.  NRS 449.535 to 449.690, inclusive, do not affect the right of a patient to make decisions regarding use of life-sustaining treatment, so long as the patient is able to do so, or impair or supersede a right or responsibility that any person has to effect the withholding or withdrawal of medical care.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 761; A 1991, 637)