Source: http://delcode.delaware.gov/title16/c030c/
Timestamp: 2018-02-18 08:48:10
Document Index: 760060481

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 3001', '§ 3002', '§ 3003', '§ 3004', '§ 3005', '§ 1', '§ 3002', '§ 360', '§ 3003', '§ 3004', '§ 3005']

§ 3001C § 3002C § 3003C § 3004C § 3005C
The General Assembly of the State has found that each year more than 350,000 Americans experience out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest. More than 95% of them die. In many cases, people die because life-saving defibrillators arrive on the scene too late, if at all. It is estimated that more than 100,000 deaths could be prevented each year if defibrillators were more widely available to designated users (responders). Many communities around the country have invested in 911 emergency response systems, emergency personnel and ambulance vehicles. However, many of these same communities do not have enough defibrillators. It is therefore the intent of this General Assembly to encourage greater acquisition, deployment and use of automated external defibrillators in communities within the State.
72 Del. Laws, c. 412, § 1.;
§ 3002C Definitions.
(1) "Automated external defibrillator,'' (AED) shall mean a medical device which is both a heart monitor and defibrillator that has received approval of its premarket notification, filed with the Food and Drug Administration pursuant to United States Code, Title 21, § 360(k).
(2) "Records'' shall mean the recordings of interviews and all oral or written reports, statements, minutes, memoranda, charts, statistics, data and other documentation generated by the State EMS Medical Director.
§ 3003C Correct use of defibrillator; training in order to ensure public health and safety.
§ 3004C Quality Review Program.
All quality management proceedings shall be confidential. Records of the State EMS Medical Director, and EMS quality care review committee relating to AED reviews and audits shall be confidential and privileged, are protected, and are not subject to discovery, subpoena or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Raw data used in any AED review or audit shall not be available for public inspection; nor is such raw data a "public record'' as set forth in the Delaware Freedom of Information Act [Chapter 100 of Title 29].
§ 3005C Provision of limited liability protections.
(a) Any person or entity, who in good faith and without compensation, renders emergency care or treatment by the use of an AED shall be immune from civil liability for any personal injury as a result of such care or treatment, or as a result of any act or failure to act in providing or arranging further medical treatment, if such person acts as an ordinary, reasonably prudent person would have acted under the same or similar circumstances and such act or acts do not amount to wilful or wanton misconduct or gross negligence.