Law and Order
This State Administrative Code describes the recertification process.
What is 157.34
Emergency prehospital or facilities that use invasive medical actions under medical supervision and control of a licensed physician.
What is Advanced Life Support or ALS
An individual failing to respond to a call while on duty and/or leaving duty assignment without proper authority
What is Suspend, Revoke, or Refuse to renew
OPA's BVM's, Oxygen, Bandaging, Splints, and C-collars
What are Basic Life Support / BLS Equipment
Leaving a patient without appropriate medical care once patient contact has been established.
What is Abonnement
This State Administrative Code describes definitions used in the EMS profession.
What is 157.02
Services used to respond to an individual's perceived need for medical care and to prevent death or aggravation of physiological illness or injury.
What is Emergency Medical Services or EMS
This is effective immediately without a hearing on notice to the certificate or license holder.
IV's, Capnography, Advanced Airways, and BLS
What are Advanced Life Support / ALS Equipment
A procedure put into effect by a trauma facility to ensure appropriate patient care when that facility is unable to provide the level of care demanded by a trauma patient's injuries or when the facility has temporarily exhausted its resources.
What is Diversion
This State Administrative Code describes Continuing Education.
What is 157.38
A unit specially organized to provide coordinated emergency medical response operation systems during large scale EMS incidents or disasters.
What is Emergency Medical Task Force or EMTF
A person commits an offense if the person knowingly practices as, attempts to practice as, or represents himself to be an emergency medical technician-paramedic, advanced emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician, emergency care attendant, or licensed paramedic and the person does not hold an appropriate certificate issued by the department.
What is a Class A Misdemeanor
BLS, ALS, Pharmaceuticals, and Transmitting 12 lead
What is Mobile Intensive Care Unit / MICU Equipment
The supervision of prehospital emergency medical service providers by a licensed physician. This encompasses on-line (direct voice contact) and off-line (written protocol and procedural review).
What is Medical Control
This State Administrative Code describes EMS Personnel Disciplinary Action
What is 157.36
An organization serving as the Department of State Health Services recognized health care coalition responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of the regional trauma and emergency health care system within the geographic jurisdiction of the Trauma Service Area
What is Regional Advisory Council or RAC
An individual falsifying any EMS record; patient record or report; or making false or misleading statements in a oral report; or destroying a patient care report
What is Suspend, Revoke, or Refuse to renew
All required BLS equipment, even when in service or response ready at the ALS level; and All required ALS equipment, when in service or response ready at the ALS level.
What is BLS with ALS Capabilities
A hospital that has successfully completed the designation process, is capable of stabilization and/or definitive treatment of critically injured persons and actively participates in a regional EMS/trauma system.
What is a Trauma Facility
This is the Health and Safety Code.
What is 773
The call center responsible for answering calls to an emergency telephone number for ambulance services; sometimes called "dispatch center."
What is Public Safety Answering Point or PSAP
A person commits an offense if the person knowingly uses or permits to be used a vehicle that the person owns, operates, or controls to transport a sick or injured person unless the person is licensed as an emergency medical services provider by the department.
What is Class A Misdemeanor
All required ALS equipment, even when in service or response ready at the MICU level; and All MICU equipment, when in service or response ready at the MICU level
What is ALS with MICU Capabilities
Direction given to a prehospital emergency medical services unit, by direct/on-line medical control or predetermined triage criteria, to pass the nearest hospital for the most appropriate hospital/trauma facility.
What is Bypass