Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 682 > Emergency Medical Services Providers

• Ambulance service: means a person, governmental unit or other entity that operates ambulances and that holds itself out as providing prehospital care or medical transportation to persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• County court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Emergency care: means the performance of acts or procedures under emergency conditions in the observation, care and counsel of persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities; in the administration of care or medications prescribed by a licensed physician or naturopathic physician, insofar as any of these acts is based upon knowledge and application of the principles of biological, physical and social science as required by a completed course utilizing an approved curriculum in prehospital emergency care. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Emergency medical services provider: means a person who has received formal training in prehospital and emergency care, and is licensed to attend any person who is ill or injured or who has a disability. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Governmental unit: means the state or any county, municipality or other political subdivision or any department, board or other agency of any of them. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Nonemergency care: means the performance of acts or procedures on a patient who is not expected to die, become permanently disabled or suffer permanent harm within the next 24 hours, including but not limited to observation, care and counsel of a patient and the administration of medications prescribed by a physician licensed under ORS Chapter 677 or naturopathic physician licensed under ORS Chapter 685, insofar as any of those acts are based upon knowledge and application of the principles of biological, physical and social science and are performed in accordance with scope of practice rules adopted by the Oregon Medical Board or Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine in the course of providing prehospital care. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Owner: means the person having all the incidents of ownership in an ambulance service or an ambulance vehicle or where the incidents of ownership are in different persons, the person, other than a security interest holder or lessor, entitled to the possession of an ambulance vehicle or operation of an ambulance service under a security agreement or a lease for a term of 10 or more successive days. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Patient: means a person who is ill or injured or who has a disability and who receives emergency or nonemergency care from an emergency medical services provider. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Scope of practice: means the maximum level of emergency or nonemergency care that an emergency medical services provider may provide. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Standing orders: means the written protocols that an emergency medical services provider follows to treat patients when direct contact with a physician is not maintained. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• State Treasury: includes those financial assets the lawful custody of which are vested in the State Treasurer and the office of the State Treasurer relating to the custody of those financial assets. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supervising physician: means a physician licensed under ORS § 677. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Unprofessional conduct: means conduct unbecoming a person licensed to perform emergency care, or detrimental to the best interests of the public and includes:

  (a) Any conduct or practice contrary to recognized standards of ethics of the medical profession or any conduct or practice which does or might constitute a danger to the health or safety of a patient or the public or any conduct, practice or condition which does or might impair an emergency medical services provider's ability safely and skillfully to practice emergency or nonemergency care;

  (b) Willful performance of any medical treatment which is contrary to acceptable medical standards; and

  (c) Willful and consistent utilization of medical service for treatment which is or may be considered inappropriate or unnecessary. See Oregon Statutes 682.025