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Y <br />200505290 <br />Regarding the withholding or withdrawal of life - <br />sustaining procedures or treatments, I hereby direct as follows: <br />a. I shall not have life- sustaining procedures or treatments <br />if I am in a terminal condition or a persistent <br />vegetative state. <br />b. I shall not have artificially administered nutrition and <br />hydration if I am in a terminal condition or a persistent <br />vegetative state. <br />In making this Power of Attorney for Health Care, I fully <br />understand each of the following words and terms and the <br />definitions applied to each, as hereafter set forth: <br />a. Attending Ph sician shall mean the physician selected by <br />or assigned to a principal, who has primary <br />responsibility for the care and treatment of such <br />principal. <br />b. Health Care Provider shall mean an individual or facility <br />licensed, certified or otherwise authorized or permitted <br />by law to administer health care in the ordinary course <br />of business or professional practice, and shall include <br />all facilities defined in Section 71- 2017.01 of the <br />Nebraska Revised Statutes. <br />c. Inca able shall mean the inability to understand and <br />appreciate the nature and consequences of health care <br />decisions, including the benefits of, risks of, and <br />alternatives to any proposed health care or the inability <br />to communicate in any manner an informed health care <br />decision. <br />d. Life - Sustaining Procedure shall mean any medical <br />procedure, treatment, or intervention that (a) uses <br />mechanical or other artificial means to sustain, restore, <br />or supplant a spontaneous vital function and (b) when <br />applied to a person suffering from a terminal condition <br />or who is in a persistent vegetative state, serves only <br />to prolong the dying process. Life - sustaining procedure <br />shall not include routine care necessary to maintain <br />patient comfort or the usual and typical provision of <br />nutrition and hydration. <br />e. Persistent Vegetative State shall mean a medical <br />condition that, to a reasonable degree of medical <br />certainty as determined in accordance with currently <br />accepted medical standards, is characterized by a total <br />and irreversible loss of consciousness and capacity for <br />cognitive interaction with the environment and no <br />reasonable hope of improvement. <br />-3- <br />