Louisiana Medical Power of Attorney
A Medical Power of Attorney is used if you become unable to make healthcare decisions for yourself.
The person that you name as your Medical Power of Attorney representative can make any decisions related to your healthcare that you allow. These decisions could include giving, withholding or withdrawing informed consent to any type of health care, including but not limited to, medical and surgical treatments. Other decisions that may be included are life-prolonging interventions, psychiatric treatment, nursing care, hospitalization, treatment in a nursing home, home health care and organ donation. Your representative can have or control access to your medical records and decide about measures for the relief of pain. Your Medical Power of Attorney can be as broad or as narrow as you want it to be. You can specifically write that your Medical Power Attorney Representative shall not have the power to make one of these decisions. Or, you can specifically state exactly what decision you want your Medical Power of Attorney Representative to make. For example, you might say that your representative cannot give a certain person access to your medical records.
Medical Power of Attorney
Is used only if you are unable to make a medical decision for yourself.
The agent can only use the medical POA if your doctor says you’re unable to make key medical decisions for yourself.
Is used if you are unconscious after an accident or under ansthesia.
The agent can authorize a blood transfusion or any life saving procedure immediately.
Is used in all conditions that you cannot predict.
Because you cannot predict these situations, you cannot decide in advance what choice you would make. You can choose a trusted agent to make these decisions.
Types of Power of Attorney
Medical
General
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