Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 53 > Subchapter I - General Provisions

• Administrator: shall mean the program chief of the paramedic services responsible for advanced life support and the administration of the Delaware Paramedic Services Act;

  (2) "Advanced life support" (ALS) shall have the same definition as is set forth in Chapter 97 of this title;

  (3) "Basic life support" (BLS) shall have the same definition as is set forth in Chapter 97 of this title;

  (4) "Board" shall mean the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline;

  (5) "Certification" means original certification as a paramedic by the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Certification: means original certification as a paramedic by the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Criminal history: means a person's entire criminal history record from the State Bureau of Identification and the person's entire federal criminal history record maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802
• Department: shall mean the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services;

  (11) "Emergency medical services (EMS) provider" shall mean individual providers certified by the Delaware State Fire Prevention Commission or the Office of EMS, or emergency medical dispatchers certified by the National Academy of Emergency Medical Dispatch. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802

• Director: means the Director of the Division of Public Health, or such persons as may be designated by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Emergency medical unit: shall mean an ambulance, rescue vehicle or any other specialized vehicle staffed by EMS providers and other certified or licensed medical care providers, and utilized solely for providing mobile pre-hospital care and other emergency medical treatment;

  (14) "Medical command facility" shall mean the distinct unit within a hospital which meets the operational, staffing and equipment requirements established by the Division of Public Health for providing medical control to the EMS providers. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802

• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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.
• Medical control: shall mean an order or directive given to an EMS provider by an authorized medical control physician. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802
• Medical control physician: shall mean any physician certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine or the American Board of Osteopathic Emergency Medicine, or their successors, or a physician certified in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or other courses approved by the Office of Emergency Medical Services who is credentialed by the hospital within which a medical command facility is located and who is authorized by the medical command facility to give medical control commands via radio or other telecommunication devices to an EMS provider. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802
• Office: shall mean the Office of Emergency Medical Services, of the Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Services;

  (18) "Paramedic staff hour" shall mean 1 full hour of a paramedic on duty. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802

• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pre-hospital care: shall mean any emergency medical service, including advanced life support, rendered by an emergency medical unit before and during transportation to a hospital or other facility, and upon arrival at the facility until such care is assumed by the facility's staff;

  (20) "Service and/or training reciprocity agreements" shall mean written agreements negotiated between 2 counties or between a county and an adjoining state or a governmental entity of an adjoining state and approved pursuant to the provisions of this chapter which provide for the scheduled delivery of paramedic services by paramedics to citizens of this State or a neighboring state by personnel certified to render such services by this State or a neighboring state, or such similar agreements as are required by and between the counties of this State, in order to effectively and efficiently deliver paramedic services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802

• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services or such persons as may be designated by the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• State EMS Medical Director: shall mean a physician who is board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and/or by the Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine and who shall be the chief physician for the statewide emergency medical system and under whose license all EMS providers shall operate for the purpose of delivering the standing orders of the statewide standard treatment protocol;

  (22) "Statewide ALS treatment protocol" shall mean written and uniform treatment and care plans for emergency and critical patients statewide that constitute the standing orders of paramedics. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802

• Statewide BLS treatment protocol: shall mean written and uniform treatment and care plans for emergency and critical patients statewide that constitute the standing orders of basic life support providers. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9802
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302