Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 70.168 - Statewide trauma care system

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Cardiac: means acute coronary syndrome, an umbrella term used to cover any group of clinical symptoms compatible with acute myocardial ischemia, which is chest discomfort or other symptoms due to insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle resulting from coronary artery disease. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of health. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Designated trauma care service: means a level I, II, III, IV, or V trauma care service or level I, II, or III pediatric trauma care service or level I, I-pediatric, II, or III trauma-related rehabilitative service. 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
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Emergency medical service: means medical treatment and care that may be rendered at the scene of any medical emergency or while transporting any patient in an ambulance to an appropriate medical facility, including ambulance transportation between medical facilities. 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
• Emergency medical services medical program director: means a person who is an approved program director as defined by RCW 18. 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}
• 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.
• 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
• Hospital: means a facility licensed under chapter 70. 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
• person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
• 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
• Secretary: means the secretary of the department of health. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• 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
• Triage: means the sorting of patients in terms of disposition, destination, or priority. See Washington Code 70.168.015
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Verification: means the identification of prehospital providers who are capable of providing verified trauma care services and shall be a part of the licensure process required in chapter 18. See Washington Code 70.168.015