16 Del. Admin. Code § 4301-1.0
"911 ALS Organization" means an EMS organization that has been designated to provide ALS services to calls originating from a 911 center.
"ACLS" means American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support course.
"Advanced Life Support" The advanced level of prehospital and interhospital health care that includes basic life support functions plus cardiac monitoring, defibrillation, administration of specific medications, drugs and solutions, intravenous therapy, and other authorized treatments and procedures.
"Advertising" means any information communicated by oral, written, electronic, or any graphic means including flyers, newspapers, business cards, letterhead, radio, television, telephone directories, or internet websites. It also includes ambulance markings. It does not include novelty items such as pens, pencils and mugs.
"Air Medical Service" means an organization that provides medical transportation utilizing either fixed wing or rotor-wing vehicles.
"ALS" is Advanced Life Support
"ALS-IFT" means Advanced Life Support - Interfacility Transport
"ALS-ITO" means an organization or service that provides Advanced Life Support - Interfacility Transport.
"Ambulance" means any publicly or privately owned vehicle, as certified by the State Fire Prevention Commission, that is specifically designed, constructed or modified and equipped, and intended to be used for and is maintained or operated for the transportation upon the streets and highways of this state for persons who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.
"BCLS" means American Heart Association Basic Cardiac Life Support course
"Board of Medical Practice" is the body that oversees medical practice in Delaware under 24Del.C.19.
"BOMP" see Board of Medical Practice
"Certification Process" means the process by which a paramedic certified in another state may receive reciprocity to function in the State of Delaware. (Refer to Appendix A).
"Cost per Unit Hour" is a ratio measure of fiscal performance. It is calculated by summing all costs associated with providing a service (i.e. staffing, fuel, vehicle expenses, supplyº) for a particular period and dividing by the number of unit hours that were produced by the service during the same period.
"Designation" means status provided by the Division of Public Health to an ambulance service allowing them to provide Advanced Life Support Interfacility Transportation.
"Designation Probation" Organization may provide ALS Interfacility Transportation but performance will be monitored as recommended changes are implemented. Continued infractions may result in suspension or revocation of service designation.
"Designation Reinstatement" The Organization may resume provision of ALS-IFT in the State of Delaware.
"Designation Revocation" The Organization may not provide ALS Interfacility Transport services in the State of Delaware for a period of one year before re-applying for ALS-ITO Designation.
"Designation Suspension" The Organization may not provide ALS Interfacility Transport services until recommended changes are implemented and reviewed by the OEMS.
"Division" Refers to the Division of Public Health
"EDIN" See 'Emergency Data Information Network'
"Emergency Call" Any request for medical assistance that is received by a 911 Public Safety Access Point (PSAP).
"Emergency Data Information Network" Internet based data collection system for the State EMS system.
"Emergency Medical Technician" means a person who has been trained in basic emergency care procedures and has been certified by the Delaware Fire Prevention Commission to perform them in the State of Delaware.
"Inter-facility Transportation" means the movement of a patient between two medical facilities.
"Medical Facility" An agency, institution, or establishment where people receive acute, inpatient, outpatient, or long term health care.
"Non-911 ALS Organization" means an organization that is approved to provide ALS services to calls that do not originate from a 911 center.
"OEMS" Office of Emergency Medical Services, Division of Public Health
"Office" Refers to the Office of Emergency Medical Services, Division of Public Health
"Optional ALS Skill" means a skill, procedure, or medication that has been approved by the BOMP for use by ALS-ITO paramedics. Optional skills are only for use by 'non-911'' organizations.
"Organization" means an ALS Interfacility Transportation Organization
"Organization Medical Director" Medical Director hired or contracted to oversee the medical care provided by an ALS-ITO.
"PALS" American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support course
"Paramedic" means a person who has been trained in advanced life support procedures and has been certified by the Division of Public Health and the Board of Medical Practice to perform them in the State of Delaware.
"Patient Contact Activity" means any activity involving contact between a patient and an ALS-ITO provider involving assessment, treatment, and/or transportation services being provided to the patient by the provider.
"PHTLS" The National Association of EMTs and the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons Prehospital Trauma Life Support course.
"Physician" means an individual authorized to practice medicine in Delaware under 24Del.C.17.
"PSAP" Public Safety Access Point. Location / agency that receives 911 calls for public safety assistance.
"Registered Nurse" An individual authorized to practice registered nursing in Delaware under 24Del.C.17.
"Unit Hour" A basic EMS productivity measure. A unit that is staffed and available for service for one hour generates 'a unit hour'.
16 Del. Admin. Code § 4301-1.0