Arizona Laws 36-2219. Emergency medical care technicians; requirements; transportation
A. An emergency medical care technician shall comply with either emergency medical standards and protocols established by the regional council or the medical direction for the local jurisdiction when considering emergency transport, including the appropriate use of telecommunications.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-2219
- Council: means the emergency medical services council. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Emergency medical care technician: means an individual who has been certified by the department as an emergency medical technician, an advanced emergency medical technician, an emergency medical technician I-99 or a paramedic. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- Emergency medical services: means those services required following an accident or an emergency medical situation:
(a) For on-site emergency medical care. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
B. An emergency medical care technician may not do either of the following:
1. Provide a patient with a presumptive medical diagnosis and use that medical diagnosis as the basis for counseling the patient to decline emergency medical services transportation.
2. Counsel a patient to decline emergency medical services transportation, except as part of a specific alternate destination or treat-and-refer program that includes quality management and comprehensive medical direction oversight.
C. An emergency medical care technician shall explain to a patient the risks and consequences to the patient’s health of not being transported.
D. It is not a violation of this section for an emergency medical care technician to inform a patient of the patient’s right to accept or decline emergency medical services transportation, unless the emergency medical care technician does so in an effort to coerce the patient to decline emergency medical services.