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§ 7-651.08Title 7

Comfort care; alleviation of pain.

EMS personnel may provide the following interventions to a patient who is wearing an intact comfort care bracelet or necklace that has not been defaced to comfort the patient or alleviate pain: Clear the airway, excluding artificial ventilation, esophageal obturator airway, or advanced airway management; Administer suction; Provide oxygen, excluding artificial ventilation, esophageal obturator airway, or advanced airway management; Provide pain medication; Control bleeding; or Make comfort adjustments.

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Apr. 3, 2001, D.C. Law 13-224, § 9, 48 DCR 27
This section is referenced in § 7-651.01.
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