§ 3003-b. Availability of ambulance service that provides transportation by aircraft to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer blood transfusions. 1. An ambulance service licensed under this article that provides transportation by aircraft may store and distribute human blood and blood products at all their facilities and qualified medical and health personnel, as defined in this article, operating within an ambulance service licensed under this article, may initiate and administer human blood and blood product transfusions while providing air transport services. As used in this section, "air transport services" means emergency medical care and the transportation of sick or injured persons by aircraft to, from or between general hospitals or other health care facilities.

Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 3003-B

  • Ambulance service: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality or any legal or public entity or subdivision thereof engaged in providing emergency medical care and the transportation of sick or injured persons by motor vehicle, aircraft or other forms of transportation to, from, or between general hospitals or other health care facilities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3001
  • Emergency medical service: means initial emergency medical assistance including, but not limited to, the treatment of trauma, burns, respiratory, circulatory and obstetrical emergencies. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3001
  • Qualified medical and health personnel: means physicians, registered professional nurses and advanced emergency medical technicians competent in the management of patients requiring advanced life support care. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3001

2. Notwithstanding title five of article five of this chapter, any ambulance service licensed under this article that provides transportation by aircraft and only for purposes of providing air transport services, may store and distribute human blood and blood products in accordance with standards for the storage of blood products of the United States Food and Drug Administration and any rules, regulations, guidance or minimum standards established pursuant to this section.

3. Prior to storing and distributing blood or allowing qualified medical and health personnel to initiate and administer blood transfusions under this section, the ambulance service shall ensure that it is in compliance with the rules, regulations, guidance or minimum standards established pursuant to this section and other applicable emergency medical service requirements, and shall provide notification of intent to store and distribute blood or allow qualified medical and health personnel to initiate and administer blood transfusions as part of their air transport services at least sixty days prior to beginning such care.

4. The state emergency medical services council, with the approval of the commissioner, shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this section.

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