311A.010 Definitions for chapter.
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)"Advanced emergency medical technician" or "AEMT" means a person certified by
the board under this chapter as an advanced emergency medical technician;
(2)"Advanced practice paramedic" or "APP" means a paramedic licensed by the board
under this chapter as a paramedic and certified by the board under this chapter in at
least one
(1)emergency medical services subspecialty, including community
paramedic, critical care paramedic, wilderness paramedic, tactical paramedic, or
flight paramedic;
(3)"Ambulance" means a vehicle which has been inspected and approved by the board,
including a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft, except vehicles or aircraft operated by
the United States government, that are specially designed, constructed, or have been
modified or equipped with the intent of using the same, for the purpose of
transporting any individual who is sick, injured, or otherwise incapacitated who
may require immediate stabilization or continued medical response and intervention
during transit or upon arrival at the patient's destination to safeguard the patient's
life or physical well-being;
(4)"Ambulance provider" or "ambulance service" means any individual or private or
public organization, except the United States government, who is licensed by the
board to provide medical services that may include transport at either basic life
support level or advanced life support level and who may have a vehicle or
vehicles, including ground vehicles, helicopters, or fixed-wing aircraft, to provide
such transportation;
(5)"Board" means the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services;
(6)"Community paramedic" or "CP" means an advanced practice paramedic certified
under this chapter as a CP;
(7)"Emergency medical facility" means a hospital or any other institution licensed by
the Cabinet for Health and Family Services that furnishes emergency medical
services;
(8)"Emergency medical responder" or "EMR" means a person certified under this
chapter as an EMR or EMR instructor;
(9)"Emergency medical services" or "EMS" means the services utilized in providing
care for the perceived individual need for immediate medical care to protect against
loss of life, or aggravation of physiological or psychological illness or injury;
(10)"Emergency medical services educator" or "EMS educator" means a person who is
certified and licensed by the board under this chapter as a Level I, II, or III EMS
educator to provide emergency medical services education and training with the
scope of practice established by the board through administrative regulations;
(11)"Emergency Medical Services for Children Program" or "EMSC Program" means
the program established under this chapter;
(12)"Emergency medical services medical director" means a physician licensed in
Kentucky and certified by the board under this chapter who is employed by, under
contract to, or has volunteered to provide supervision for a paramedic or an
ambulance service, or both;
(13)"Emergency medical services personnel" means:
(a)Persons trained to provide emergency medical services and certified or
licensed by the board under this chapter as an AEMT, APP, EMR, EMR
instructor, EMT, EMT instructor, paramedic, or paramedic instructor; and
(b)Authorized emergency medical services medical directors and mobile
integrated healthcare program medical directors, whether on a paid or
volunteer basis;
(14)"Emergency medical services system" means a coordinated system of health-care
delivery that responds to the needs of acutely sick and injured adults and children,
and includes community education and prevention programs, mobile integrated
healthcare programs, centralized access and emergency medical dispatch,
communications networks, trained emergency medical services personnel, medical
first response, ground and air ambulance services, trauma care systems, mass
casualty management, medical direction, and quality control and system evaluation
procedures;
(15)"Emergency medical services training or educational institution" means any
organization licensed by the board under this chapter to provide emergency medical
services training or education or in-service training, other than a licensed
ambulance service which provides training, or in-service training in-house for its
own employees or volunteers;
(16)"Emergency medical technician" or "EMT" means a person certified under this
chapter as an EMT or EMT instructor;
(17)"Executive director" means the executive director of the Kentucky Board of
Emergency Medical Services;
(18)"Mobile integrated healthcare" or "MIH" means a program licensed by the board
under this chapter to provide services including evaluation, advice, and medical
care for the purpose of preventing or improving a particular medical condition
outside of a hospital setting to eligible patients who do not require or request
emergency medical transportation;
(19)"Mobile integrated healthcare program medical director" or "MIH program medical
director" means a physician licensed in Kentucky and certified by the board under
this chapter who is employed by, under contract to, or has volunteered to provide
supervision for a licensed MIH program;
(20)"Paramedic" means a person who is involved in the delivery of medical services
and is licensed under this chapter;
(21)"Paramedic preceptor" means a licensed paramedic who supervises a paramedic
student during the field portion of the student's training;
(22)"Prehospital care" means the provision of emergency medical services, mobile
integrated healthcare, or transportation by trained and certified or licensed
emergency medical services personnel at the scene or while transporting sick or
injured persons to a hospital or other emergency medical facility; and
(23)"Trauma" means a single or multisystem life-threatening or limb-threatening injury
requiring immediate medical or surgical intervention or treatment to prevent death or permanent disability.