Terms Used In Washington Code 70.168.060

• Department: means the department of health. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Designation: means a formal determination by the department that hospitals or health care facilities are capable of providing designated trauma care services as authorized in RCW 70. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Emergency medical services and trauma care planning and service regions: means geographic areas established by the department under this chapter. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Emergency medical services and trauma care system plan: means a statewide plan that identifies statewide emergency medical services and trauma care objectives and priorities and identifies equipment, facility, personnel, training, and other needs required to create and maintain a statewide emergency medical services and trauma care system. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Facility patient care protocols: means the written procedures adopted by the medical staff that direct the care of the patient. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Patient care procedures: means written operating guidelines adopted by the regional emergency medical services and trauma care council, in consultation with local emergency medical services and trauma care councils, emergency communication centers, and the emergency medical services medical program director, in accordance with minimum statewide standards. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Prehospital: means emergency medical care or transportation rendered to patients prior to hospital admission or during interfacility transfer by licensed ambulance or aid service under chapter 18. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Prehospital patient care protocols: means the written procedures adopted by the emergency medical services medical program director that direct the out-of-hospital emergency care of the emergency patient which includes the trauma patient. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Rehabilitative services: means a formal program of multidisciplinary, coordinated, and integrated services for evaluation, treatment, education, and training to help individuals with disabling impairments achieve and maintain optimal functional independence in physical, psychosocial, social, vocational, and avocational realms. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Trauma: means a major single or multisystem injury requiring immediate medical or surgical intervention or treatment to prevent death or permanent disability. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Trauma care system: means an organized approach to providing care to trauma patients that provides personnel, facilities, and equipment for effective and coordinated trauma care. See Washington Code 70.168.015