N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 § 800.3 - Definitions
The following definitions shall apply to this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a)
Department means the New York State Department of
Health.
(b)
Commissioner means the State Commissioner of Health.
(c)
Person means an
individual, partnership, association, corporation or any other legal entity
whatsoever.
(d)
Emergency
medical service means a service engaged in providing initial emergency
medical assistance, including but not limited to the treatment of trauma, burns,
and respiratory, circulatory and obstetrical emergencies.
(e)
Ambulance means a motor
vehicle, airplane, boat or other form of transport especially designed and
equipped to provide emergency medical services during transit.
(f)
Ambulance service means a
person engaged in providing emergency medical services and the transportation of
sick, disabled or injured persons by motor vehicle, aircraft or other form of
transportation to or from facilities providing hospital services.
(g)
Voluntary ambulance
service means an ambulance service (1) operating not for financial
profit; and (2) no part of the assets or income of which is distributable to, or
enures to the benefit of, its members, directors or officers except to the extent
permitted under article 30.
(h)
Municipal ambulance service means an ambulance service operated
by a municipality or agency thereof and staffed by municipal employees, or an
ambulance service operated by a county or agency thereof and staffed by county
employees.
(i)
Hospital
ambulance service means an ambulance service owned or operated by a
hospital as defined in article 28 of the Public Health Law.
(j)
Certified ambulance
service means an ambulance service having an ambulance service
certificate issued by the department pursuant to section
3005 or
3006 of the Public Health Law.
(k)
Certificate of inspection
means a windshield sticker affixed to the lower right hand corner of the
windshield of the ambulance. The sticker signifies that the vehicle has been
inspected and approved by the department for operation in a certified ambulance
service.
(l)
New
vehicle means a vehicle of recent manufacture placed in service for the
first time.
(m)
Emergency
ambulance service vehicle means a vehicle that is owned or operated by
an ambulance service that is used to transport emergency medical personnel and
equipment to sick or injured persons.
(n)
Emergency medical
technician means a person certified as either an advanced emergency
medical technician or an emergency medical technician-basic pursuant to these
regulations.
(o)
Emergency
medical technician-basic means a person certified pursuant to these
regulations as an emergency medical technician-basic.
(p)
Advanced emergency medical
technician means a person certified pursuant to these regulations as an
emergency medical technician-intermediate, an emergency medical
technician-critical care, or an emergency medical technician-paramedic.
(q)
State council means the
New York State emergency medical services council established pursuant to section
3002 of article 30 of the Public Health Law.
(r)
Regional council means a
regional emergency medical services council established pursuant to section 3003
of article 30 of the Public Health Law.
(s)
Certified first responder
means a person certified pursuant to these regulations as a first
responder.
(t)
Certified
instructor coordinator means a person certified pursuant to these
regulations to serve as the lead instructor for courses leading to certification
as an emergency medical technician or certified first responder.
(u)
Advanced life support
system means a method for the provision of initial emergency medical
assistance under medical direction and supervision including, but not limited to,
one or more of the following services:
(1)
administration of intravenous fluids;
(2) administration of drugs;
(3) intubation;
(4) manual defibrillation; and
(5) other services as approved by the
commissioner and council.
(v)
Primary territory means
that area listed on an ambulance service certificate or certificate or
registration in which the service may receive (pick up) patients.
(w)
Certified laboratory
instructor means a person certified pursuant to these regulations to
instruct, in psychomotor skills, candidates in courses leading to certification
as an emergency medical technician or certified first responder.
(x)
Course sponsor means a
person approved by the department to conduct EMS educational programs as one or
more of the following specific types of course sponsor:
(1)
Basic life support sponsor
- a course sponsor authorized by the department to conduct original and refresher
CFR, EMT and EMT-D courses.
(2)
Advanced life support sponsor - a course sponsor authorized by
the department to conduct all basic life support courses, EMT-I and EMT-CC
original and refresher courses, and the EMT-P original and refresher
courses.
(3)
Continuing
education course sponsor - a course sponsor authorized by the department
to conduct one or more of the following courses: critical trauma care, ambulance
accident prevention seminar, combined EMT refresher/CTC, certified instructor
coordinator, certified lab instructor, certified instructor update, prehospital
pediatric care course, EMS dispatcher course, crash victim extrication, emergency
vehicle operator, infection control workshop, or other continuing education
courses developed by the department. Approval as a continuing education course
sponsor is specific to the actual courses that the sponsor is authorized to offer
and not all sponsors will be approved to offer all types of courses.
(y)
Learning
contract means an informal written agreement between a student and a
course sponsor which specifies requirements to complete the course and the
policies of the sponsor.
(z)
DNR bracelet means an item meeting the Department of Health
specification in section
800.90
of this Part which may be worn by a person who has been issued a valid
nonhospital order not to resuscitate.
(aa)
Automated External
Defibrillation(AED) means defibrillation by a certified first responder,
emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician using an
external defibrillator that incorporates an electronic rhythm analysis system
that limits the delivery of an electrical counter shock to a rhythm for which
defibrillation is medically indicated. The external defibrillator may be either a
fully automatic or semiautomatic (shock-advisory) type.
(ab)
Mutual aid agreement
means a written agreement, entered into by two or more ambulance services or
advanced life support first response services for the organized, coordinated and
cooperative reciprocal mobilization of personnel, equipment, services or
facilities for back-up or support upon request as required pursuant to a written
mutual aid plan.
(ac)
Call
receipt interval means the elapsed time from receipt of a request for
emergency assistance by the service or its dispatch agency to the time a staffed
ambulance ar ALSFR vehicle is en route to the reported location of the
incident.
(ad)
Advanced life
support (ALS) care means definitive acute medical care provided under
medical control, by advanced emergency medical technicians within an advanced
life support system.
(ae)
Advanced life support first responder (ALSFR) service means any
person or organization which provides advanced life support care, but does not
transport patients.
(af)
Advanced life support first response (ALSFR) vehicle means a
designated vehicle or conveyance operated by an ALSFR service, which brings
advanced life support equipment and personnel authorized to provide ALS care to a
location to provide such care.
(ag)
Quality improvement program means a system which seeks to
improve and enhance the quality and appropriateness of patient care and clinical
performance of the service.
(ah)
Governing authority means in the case of a fire district, the
board of fire commisioners; or in the case of a municipality, the municipality's
legislative body; or in the case of a corporation, the board of directors; or in
the case of a hospital, the governing body; or in the case of a partnership, each
of the partners; or in the case of a sole proprietorship, the proprietor; or in
the case of an unincorporated association, all the members of the
association.
(ai)
EMS
service means an ambulance service or an advanced life support first
response service.
(aj)
Authorized EMS response vehicle means any vehicle, conveyance,
boat or aircraft meeting the requirements of this Part authorized by the
governing authority and operated by an EMS service for the purpose of providing
certified personnel and equipment to an event dispatched as an EMS
response.
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