Standard Practice for Qualifications, Responsibilities, and Authority of Individuals and Institutions Providing Medical Direction of Emergency Medical Services

Importancia y uso:

4.1 Implementation of this practice will ensure that the EMS system has the authority commensurate with the responsibility to ensure adequate medical direction of all pre-hospital providers, as well as personnel and facilities that meet minimum criteria to implement medical direction of pre-hospital services.

4.1.1 The state will develop, recommend, and encourage use of a plan that would ensure the standards outlined in this document can be implemented as appropriate at the local, regional, or state level (see Guide F1086).

4.1.2 This practice is intended to describe and define responsibility for medical directions during transfers. It is not intended to determine the medical or legal, or both, appropriateness of transfers under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and other similar federal or state laws, or both.

Subcomité:

COS.01

Referida por:

F1220-95R22

Volúmen:

13.02

Número ICS:

11.160 (First aid)

Palabras clave:

aeromedical; interfacility; medical control; medical direction; on-line/off-line;