Hospice Palliative Care Act Article 3
Definitions:1. Hospice palliative care (HPC): This term refers to the mitigatory and supportive medical care given to relieve terminal illness patients from and rid of physical , mental and spiritual pain, to improve their quality of life.2. Terminal illness patients: This term refers to those who suffer from serious injury or illness, and are diagnosed by a physician as incurable, and there is medical evidence showed that the prognosis is fatal within near future.3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): This term refers to the implementation of the standard first aid procedures or other emergency treatments on terminally ill or dying patients, or patients without vital sign. It includes endotracheal intubation, chest compression, injection of resuscitation drugs, external defibrillation, artificial cardiac pacing, mouth-to-mouth ventilation and ventilator use, etc.4. Life-sustaining treatment (LST): This term refers to the medical procedures which could maintain terminal illness patients’ vital signs to extend dying process without curative effect.5. Decision to receive life-sustaining treatments: This term refers to the choice of the terminal illness patients to receive CPR or LST.6. Decision maker: This term refers to the person who writes the letter of intent for the choice of HPC or LST.
中文原文 安寧緩和醫療條例第3條
本條例專用名詞定義如下：
一、安寧緩和醫療：指為減輕或免除末期病人之生理、心理及靈性痛苦，施予緩解性、支持性之醫療照護，以增進其生活品質。
二、末期病人：指罹患嚴重傷病，經醫師診斷認為不可治癒，且有醫學上之證據，近期內病程進行至死亡已不可避免者。
三、心肺復甦術：指對臨終、瀕死或無生命徵象之病人，施予氣管內插管、體外心臟按壓、急救藥物注射、心臟電擊、心臟人工調頻、人工呼吸等標準急救程序或其他緊急救治行為。
四、維生醫療：指用以維持末期病人生命徵象，但無治癒效果，而只能延長其瀕死過程的醫療措施。
五、維生醫療抉擇：指末期病人對心肺復甦術或維生醫療施行之選擇。
六、意願人：指立意願書選擇安寧緩和醫療或作維生醫療抉擇之人。
一、安寧緩和醫療：指為減輕或免除末期病人之生理、心理及靈性痛苦，施予緩解性、支持性之醫療照護，以增進其生活品質。
二、末期病人：指罹患嚴重傷病，經醫師診斷認為不可治癒，且有醫學上之證據，近期內病程進行至死亡已不可避免者。
三、心肺復甦術：指對臨終、瀕死或無生命徵象之病人，施予氣管內插管、體外心臟按壓、急救藥物注射、心臟電擊、心臟人工調頻、人工呼吸等標準急救程序或其他緊急救治行為。
四、維生醫療：指用以維持末期病人生命徵象，但無治癒效果，而只能延長其瀕死過程的醫療措施。
五、維生醫療抉擇：指末期病人對心肺復甦術或維生醫療施行之選擇。
六、意願人：指立意願書選擇安寧緩和醫療或作維生醫療抉擇之人。