Arizona Laws 36-2204. Medical control
The medical director of the statewide emergency medical services and trauma system, the emergency medical services council and the medical direction commission shall recommend to the director the following standards and criteria that pertain to the quality of emergency patient care:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-2204
- Advanced life support: means the level of assessment and care identified in the scope of practice approved by the director for the advanced emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician I-99 and paramedic. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Ambulance service: means a person who owns and operates one or more ambulances. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Council: means the emergency medical services council. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Emergency medical services: means those services required following an accident or an emergency medical situation:
(a) For on-site emergency medical care. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Emergency receiving facility: means a licensed health care institution that offers emergency medical services, is staffed twenty-four hours a day and has a physician on call. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Trauma system: means an integrated and organized arrangement of health care resources having the specific capability to perform triage, transport and provide care. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Validated testing procedure: means a testing procedure that includes practical skills, or attests practical skills proficiency on a form developed by the department by the educational training program, identified pursuant to section 36-2204, paragraph 2, that is certified as valid by an organization capable of determining testing procedure and testing content validity and that is recommended by the medical direction commission and the emergency medical services council before the director's approval. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
1. Statewide standardized training, certification and recertification standards for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.
2. A standardized and validated testing procedure for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.
3. Medical standards for certification and recertification of training programs for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.
4. Standardized continuing education criteria for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.
5. Medical standards for certification and recertification of certified emergency receiving facilities and advanced life support base hospitals and approval of physicians providing medical control or medical direction for any classification of emergency medical care technicians who are required to be under medical control or medical direction.
6. Standards and mechanisms for monitoring and ongoing evaluation of performance levels of all classifications of emergency medical care technicians, emergency receiving facilities and advanced life support base hospitals and approval of physicians providing medical control or medical direction for any classification of emergency medical care technicians who are required to be under medical control or medical direction.
7. Objective criteria and mechanisms for decertification of all classifications of emergency medical care technicians, emergency receiving facilities and advanced life support base hospitals and for disapproval of physicians providing medical control or medical direction for any classification of emergency care technicians who are required to be under medical control or medical direction.
8. Medical standards for nonphysician prehospital treatment and prehospital triage of patients requiring emergency medical services.
9. Standards for emergency medical dispatcher training, including prearrival instructions. For the purposes of this paragraph, "emergency medical dispatch" means the receipt of calls requesting emergency medical services and the response of appropriate resources to the appropriate location.
10. Standards for a quality assurance process for components of the statewide emergency medical services and trauma system, including standards for maintaining the confidentiality of the information considered in the course of quality assurance and the records of the quality assurance activities pursuant to section 36-2403.
11. Standards for ambulance service and medical transportation that give consideration to the differences between urban, rural and wilderness areas.
12. Standards to allow an ambulance to transport a patient to a health care institution that is licensed as a special hospital and that is physically connected to an emergency receiving facility.