Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 179 - Office of Emergency Medical Services › Section 19a-179-1 - Emergency medical services regulations. Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
Those definitions set forth in C.G.S. Sec.
				19a-175
				shall govern the provisions of these regulations, in addition to the
				following:
(a) "Activation time" means
			 the measure of time from notification to the EMS provider that an emergency
			 exists, to the beginning of the response of the emergency vehicle.
(b) "Advertising" means the promotion or
			 announcement of one's business name and services in a manner intended to
			 attract members of the public to use such business services.
(c) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of
			 health services as defined in Sec.
			 19a-175
			 of the C.G.S.
(d) "Council" means
			 regional emergency medical services council.
(e) "Director" means the director of the
			 office of emergency medical services (OEMS).
(f) "Dispatch Center" means the organization
			 responsible for receiving emergency calls and notifying the appropriate
			 emergency medical service providers of such calls for help, and assigning them
			 to respond to such calls.
(g)
			 "Emergency Medical Services Provider" or "EMS Provider" means a person,
			 association, or organization who provides immediate and/or life saving
			 transportation and medical care away from a hospital to a victim of sudden
			 illness or injury, and who may also provide invalid coach services.
(h) "Emergency Medical Services Instructor"
			 or "EMS-I" means an individual who has successfully completed the requirements
			 of Sec.
			 19a-179-16(d)
			 of these regulations and is certified by the office of emergency medical
			 services to teach, supervise and conduct courses in EMS training
			 programs.
(i) "Emergency Medical
			 Technician" or "EMT" means an individual who has successfully completed the
			 requirements established by Sec.
			 19a-179-16(b)
			 of these regulations and is certified as an EMT by the office of emergency
			 medical services.
(j) "Emergency
			 Medical Technician-Intermediate" or "EMT-I" means an individual who has
			 successfully completed the requirements established by Sec.
			 19a-179-16(c)
			 of these regulations and is certified as an EMT-I by the office of emergency
			 medical services.
(k) "Emergency
			 Medical Technician-Paramedic" or "EMT-P" means an individual who has
			 successfully completed the requirements established by Sec.
			 19a-179-16(c)
			 of these regulations and is certified as an EMT-P by the office of emergency
			 medical services.
(l) "First
			 Responder" means the EMS provider who is notified for initial response to a
			 victim of sudden illness or injury.
(m) "Invalid Coach Transportation" means
			 transportation to or from a private home, health care facility, or hospital for
			 examination, diagnosis, treatment, therapy or consultation. Invalid Coach
			 transportation is only to include the transportation of non-stretcher patients
			 for whom the need for resuscitation, suctioning, or other emergency medical
			 care or continuous observation is not evident.
(n) "Medical Communications Coordination
			 Center" means an organization responsible for the coordination of medical
			 frequencies to ensure allocation of such frequencies on a priority basis to EMS
			 personnel requesting communications with a medical facility.
(o) "Medical Control" means the active
			 surveillance by physicians of mobile intensive care sufficient for the
			 assessment of overall practice levels as defined by statewide
			 protocols.
(p) "Medical Direction"
			 means the provision of medical advice, consultation, instruction and
			 authorization to appropriately trained or certified personnel by designated
			 staff members at sponsor hospitals.
(q) "Medical Response Technician" or "MRT"
			 means an individual who has successfully completed the requirements established
			 by Sec.
			 19a-179-16(a)
			 of these regulations and is certified as an MRT by the office of emergency
			 medical services.
(r) "Mobile
			 Intensive Care" or "MIC" means pre-hospital care involving invasive or
			 definitive skills, equipment, procedures, and other therapies.
(s) "Mobile Intensive Care Medical Director"
			 means a physician on the staff of the sponsor hospital, appointed by the
			 sponsor hospital to be medically responsible for the facility's participation
			 in the mobile intensive care system.
(t) "Mobile Intensive Care Service" means the
			 organized provision of intensive, complex prehospital care, consistent with
			 acceptable emergency medical practices, utilizing qualified personnel
			 supervised by physicians and hospitals as part of a written emergency medical
			 services agreement with the mobile intensive care provider.
(u) "Mobile Intensive Care Unit" means an
			 emergency vehicle equipped in accordance with Sec.
			 19a-179-18(b)
			 of these regulations and operated by a mobile intensive care
			 provider.
(v) "Mutual Aid" means a
			 written agreement between emergency medical service providers or among a group
			 of such providers to ensure cooperative aid in times of need.
(w) "Office of Emergency Medical Services" or
			 "OEMS" means the office established within the department of health services
			 pursuant to C.G.S. Sec.
			 19a-178.
(x) "Primary Service Area Responder" or
			 "PSAR" means the designated EMS provider for first call in a primary service
			 area.
(y) "Primary Service Area" or
			 "PSA" means a specific municipality or part thereof, to which one designated
			 EMS provider is assigned for each category of emergency medical response
			 services.
(z) "Regional Medical
			 Advisory Committee" or "RMAC" means a committee composed of physicians and
			 other members appointed by the regional emergency medical services council, for
			 the purpose of advising the council on medical practices and medical quality
			 assurances.
(aa) "Regional Medical
			 Director" means a physician licensed to practice medicine in Connecticut who is
			 authorized by the council to develop and represent council positions on medical
			 matters.
(bb) "Response Time" means
			 the total measure of time from notification to the EMS provider that an
			 emergency exists, to arrival of the EMS provider at the patient's side, and is
			 the total of "activation time" and "travel time."
(cc) "Sponsor Hospital" means a hospital
			 which has agreed to maintain staff for the provision of medical control to
			 emergency medical service providers and which has been approved by OEMS in
			 accordance with Sec.
			 19a-179-12(a)
			 (7) of these regulations.
(dd)
			 "State Medical Advisory Committee" or "SMAC" means a committee composed of the
			 medical directors of each regional emergency medical services council and the
			 medical director of OEMS, for the purpose of advising the OEMS on medical
			 matters within the emergency medical services system in the state.
(ee) "Travel Time" means the measure of time
			 from the beginning of the response of the emergency vehicle to arrival on
			 scene.