California Health and Safety Code

§ 1645

HSC § 1645 Effective Jan 1, 2008Div. 2 · Ch. 4.5

Statute text

(a)Whenever there is a reasonable possibility, as determined by a physician and surgeon or doctor of podiatric medicine, that a blood transfusion may be necessary as a result of a medical or surgical procedure, the physician and surgeon or doctor of podiatric medicine, by means of a standardized written summary as most recently developed or revised by the State Department of Public Health pursuant to subdivision (e), shall inform, either directly or through a nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or a physician assistant, who is licensed in the state and authorized to order a blood transfusion, the patient of the positive and negative aspects of receiving autologous blood and directed and nondirected homologous blood from volunteers. For purposes of this section, the term “autologous blood” includes, but is not limited to, predonation, intraoperative autologous transfusion, plasmapheresis, and hemodilution.

(b)The person who provided the patient with the standardized written summary pursuant to subdivision (a) shall note on the patient’s medical record that the standardized written summary was given to the patient.

(c)Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall not apply when medical contraindications or a life-threatening emergency exists.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 88, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008.