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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 63. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

  § 63-3102A. Experimental treatments, tests or drugs - Persons eligible to give consent.  

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  • A.  When an adult person, because of a medical condition, is treated by a licensed medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy holding a faculty appointment at a medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association, or holding clinical privileges at a healthcare institution that conducts human subject research approved by local institutional review board, and such person is incapable of giving informed consent for a local-institutional-review-board-approved experimental treatment, test or drug, then such treatment, test or drug may proceed upon obtaining informed consent of a legal guardian, attorney-in-fact with health care decision authority, or a family member in the following order of priority:

    1.  The spouse, unless the patient has no spouse, or is separated, or the spouse is physically or mentally incapable of giving consent, or the spouse's location is unknown or the spouse is overseas, or the spouse is otherwise not available;

    2.  An adult son or daughter;

    3.  Either parent;

    4.  An adult brother or sister; or

    5.  A relative by blood or marriage.

    B.  Nothing in this section shall authorize such legal guardian, attorney-in-fact or family member to consent to treatment in contravention to such incapacitated person's expressed permission or prohibition regarding such treatment.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 122, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.  Amended by Laws 2005, c. 211, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2005.