Arizona § 36-2204 - Medical control

§ 36-2204. Medical control

The medical director of the statewide emergency medical services and trauma system, the emergency medical services council and the medical direction commission shall recommend to the director the following standards and criteria that pertain to the quality of emergency patient care:

1. Statewide standardized training, certification and recertification standards for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.

2. A standardized and validated testing procedure for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.

3. Medical standards for certification and recertification of training programs for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.

4. Standardized continuing education criteria for all classifications of emergency medical care technicians.

5. Medical standards for certification and recertification of certified emergency receiving facilities and advanced life support base hospitals and approval of physicians providing medical control or medical direction for any classification of emergency medical care technicians who are required to be under medical control or medical direction.

6. Standards and mechanisms for monitoring and ongoing evaluation of performance levels of all classifications of emergency medical care technicians, emergency receiving facilities and advanced life support base hospitals and approval of physicians providing medical control or medical direction for any classification of emergency medical care technicians who are required to be under medical control or medical direction.

7. Objective criteria and mechanisms for decertification of all classifications of emergency medical care technicians, emergency receiving facilities and advanced life support base hospitals and for disapproval of physicians providing medical control or medical direction for any classification of emergency care technicians who are required to be under medical control or medical direction.

8. Medical standards for nonphysician prehospital treatment and prehospital triage of patients requiring emergency medical services.

9. Standards for emergency medical dispatcher training, including prearrival instructions. For the purposes of this paragraph, "emergency medical dispatch" means the receipt of calls requesting emergency medical services and the response of appropriate resources to the appropriate location.

10. Standards for a quality assurance process for components of the statewide emergency medical services and trauma system, including standards for maintaining the confidentiality of the information considered in the course of quality assurance and the records of the quality assurance activities pursuant to section 36-2403.

11. Standards for ambulance service and medical transportation that give consideration to the differences between urban, rural and wilderness areas.

12. Standards to allow an ambulance to transport a patient to a health care institution that is licensed as a special hospital and that is physically connected to an emergency receiving facility.