For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Advanced Life Support, Level 1 (ALS1)" means where medically necessary, the provision of an assessment by an advanced life support (ALS) provider and/or the provision of one or more ALS interventions. An ALS provider is defined as a provider trained to the level of the EMT-Intermediate or Paramedic as defined in the National EMS Education and Practice Blueprint. An ALS intervention is defined as a procedure beyond the scope of an EMT-Basic as defined in the National EMS Education and Practice Blueprint.
(b) "Advanced Life Support, Level 2 (ALS2)" means where medically necessary, the administration of at least three different medications and/or the provision of one or more of the following ALS procedures: Manual defibrillation/cardioversion, Endotracheal intubation, Central venous line, Cardiac pacing, Chest decompression, Surgical airway, Intraosseous line.
(c) "Ambulance" or "emergency medical service vehicle" means any motor vehicle that is used, or is intended to be used, for the purpose of transporting patients in a prone, supine or horizontal position. This shall also include any motor vehicle used, or intended to be used, for the purpose of responding to any emergency or life-threatening situation, while providing emergency medical service, the transportation of emergency patients, and the administration of emergency care procedures to those patients before or during the transportation.
(1979 Code 121.01)
(d) "Basic Life Support (BLS)" means where medically necessary, the provision of basic life support (BLS) services as defined in the National EMS Education and Practice Blueprint for the EMT-Basic including the establishment of a peripheral intravenous (IV) line.
(Ord. 2004-138. Passed 5-27-04.)
(Ord. 2004-138. Passed 5-27-04.)
(e) "Code 1" means a call which the paramedics on-scene, after appropriate consultation with medical control, feel may be safely transported in a private vehicle. This neither means that nothing is wrong with the patient nor that the patient does not need medical attention. It allows the patient to come to the emergency department without professional attendance. A Code 1 patient may request ambulance transport if he/she wishes, and a private ambulance company may be contacted.
(Ord. 2001-94. Passed 6-28-01.)
(Ord. 2001-94. Passed 6-28-01.)
(f) "Code 2" means a call on which the paramedics on-scene, after appropriate consultations with medical control, feel needs to be transported to the hospital with trained professionals in attendance (EMT-A level at least), but whose condition does not represent a life or limb threatening emergency. Code 2 patients may have IV lines in place if there are personnel of the appropriate level (EMT-Advanced, EMT-P) on the private ambulance.
(g) "Code 3" means a patient whom either the paramedics on scene or the physician at medical control feel will benefit from immediate transport, has a life-threatening emergency or requires skills within the scope of the paramedic level of training (monitoring IV, drug administration, etc.). It is the paramedic's right to make any run a Code 3 at his/her discretion. Likewise, it is the right of medical control to upgrade any run to a Code 3 if the physician feels this is appropriate.
(Ord. 1990-385. Passed 12-20-90.)
(h) "Contagious diseases" means those diseases listed by the Ohio Department of Health in their manual on Communicable Diseases Regulations, effective April 1, 1963, and any revisions thereof.
(i) "Driver" means an individual who drives ambulance or emergency medical service vehicles.
(j) "Emergency call" means any calls other than routine calls.
(k) "Emergency medical service vehicle". See "ambulance" or "emergency medical service vehicle" above.
(l) "Emergency medical technician" or "EMT" means Emergency Medical Technician- Ambulance, Advanced Emergency Medical Technician-Ambulance and Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic as defined below, unless otherwise specified:
(1) "Advanced EMT-A (ADV EMT-A)" means "emergency medical technician-ambulance" as defined below, but further certified under Ohio R.C. 3303.08 et seq.
(2) "Emergency medical technician ambulance (EMT-A)" means an individual certified under Ohio R.C. 3303.08 et seq.
(3) "Emergency medical technician-paramedic (EMT-P)". An "emergency medical technician-paramedic (EMT-P)" shall be specifically trained beyond the EMT-A and ADV-EMT-A levels as defined above, and certified under Ohio R.C. 3303.08 et seq.
(m) "Licensee/operator" includes every individual, proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, association, joint stock association, company, corporation, lessee, trustee or receiver, owning, controlling, operating or managing any ambulance or emergency medical service vehicle required to be licensed pursuant to this chapter.
(n) "Medical advisor" means that physician who is individually responsible for the continued training and evaluation of medical operations of an emergency medical service squad.
(o) "Medical control" means a designated medical facility staffed by the appropriate emergency medical service personnel which provides prompt physician supervision through radio or telephonic communication to the paramedic in the field and which directs the transportation of the patient to the appropriate facility for definitive care.
(q) "Patient" means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.
(r) "Public Safety Services Commission" or "Commission" means the Commission set forth in Chapter 167 of the Administrative Code.
(t) "Routine call" means a request for ambulance service made on an appointment basis, not requiring the use of flashing lights, sirens or paramedic service.
(1979 Code 121.01)
(Ord. 2000-169. Passed 6-22-00.)