Bill Text: MS HB859 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Dept. of Health regulations for advanced life support personnel; define EMT-paramedic critical care.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)
Status: (Failed) 2013-02-05 - Died In Committee [HB859 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2013-HB859-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services
By: Representatives Carpenter, Boyd, Currie, Staples, Taylor
House Bill 859
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-60-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DEFINE "EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN-PARAMEDIC CRITICAL CARE" REGARDING THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT PERSONNEL; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 41-60-11, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
41-60-11. As used in Sections 41-60-11 and 41-60-13, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:
(a) "Advanced
life support" * * *
means a sophisticated level of prehospital and interhospital emergency
care which includes basic life support functions including cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR), plus cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation,
telemetered electrocardiography, administration of antiarrhythmic agents,
intravenous therapy, administration of specific medications, drugs and
solutions, use of adjunctive ventilation devices, trauma care and other
authorized techniques and procedures.
(b) "Advanced
life support personnel" * * * means persons other than
physicians engaged in the provision of advanced life support, as defined and
regulated by rules and regulations promulgated by the board.
(c) "Emergency
medical technician-intermediate" * * * means a person specially trained
in advanced life support modules, numbers I, II and III as developed for the
United States Department of Transportation under Contract No. DOT-HS-900-089,
as authorized by the Mississippi State Board of Health.
(d) "Emergency
medical technician-paramedic" * * * means a person specially trained
in an advanced life support training program authorized by the Mississippi
State Board of Health.
(e) "Emergency medical technician-paramedic critical care" means a person who is licensed as a Mississippi emergency medical technician-paramedic and has successfully completed a critical care paramedic program recognized by the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, Mississippi State Department of Health, or comparable training and education, and received endorsement from the training institution and the department, and who is licensed to practice advanced emergency medical care upon the order or under the supervision of a physician.
( * * *f) "Medical control" * * * means directions and advice
provided from a centrally designated medical facility staffed by appropriate
personnel, operating under medical supervision, supplying professional support
through radio or telephonic communication for on-site and in-transit basic and
advanced life support services given by field and satellite facility personnel.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2013.
