NEW OPERATIONAL REGULATIONS -- Effective January 27th, 2012

Here are some of the major changes that services should be aware of with the passage of the new operational regulations.

• The operator is required to notify the board of service director changes within 7 days.

• The service director is responsible for notifying the Board of the addition or removal of attendants to/or from their roster within 90 days of the change.

• The service director is responsible for notifying the Board of resignation, termination, or incapacity/death of the medical director within 30 days of the event.

• Realize that although 109-2-4 has been revoked, those requirements have been moved into other regulations.

• The patients name was removed from the daily response log.

• QA documents will now have to be retained by the service for three years to be consistent with retention of other required documents.

• Four additional operational protocol will be required; management of firearms, mutual aid agreements, patient confidentiality, and extrication of persons from entrapment.

• Medical protocol will also include pediatric protocols.

• Two fire extinguishers shall be secured; one easily accessible by the driver and one easily accessible by the attendant.

• O2 tanks will have to have a minimum of two hundred psi.

• Medications have to be currently dated.

Please click this link to see the regulations.