(A) The city has determined that all emergency ambulance service provided in the community in response to 911 or other emergency calls shall have, as a minimum, Advanced Life Support (“ALS”) standards as the means of care and transport.
(B) The ALS minimum standards shall include:
(1) Basic life support (BLS) including that particular phase of emergency cardiac care that either prevents circulatory or respiratory arrest (or insufficiency) through prompt recognition and intervention, or both, or externally supports the circulation and respiration of a victim of cardiac or respiratory arrest through CPR;
(2) The use of adjunctive equipment and supplies, the establishment of intravenous lines, the administration of fluids and drugs, cardiac monitoring, defibrillation, the control of dysrhythmias and post resuscitation care; and
(3) Establishing communications necessary to ensure continuing care.
(C) Any ALS provider authorized and licensed to respond to 911 calls initiated in the community shall provide a management plan to the community which will establish minimum standards for the delivery of ALS care and transports for 911 or other emergency response calls within the community.
(Ord. 133, passed 8-4-1998)