Nev. Admin. Code § 639.6955

Current through October 11, 2024
Section 639.6955 - Life-sustaining equipment

A medical products provider who sells, leases or otherwise provides life-sustaining equipment shall:

1. Maintain a sufficient number of employees who are:
(a) Trained to service and repair the life-sustaining equipment provided by the medical products provider; and
(b) Available to service and repair the life-sustaining equipment within 1 hour of any call for service or repair;
2. Inform all consumers to whom the medical products provider has sold, leased or otherwise provided life-sustaining equipment of a toll-free telephone number that the consumer may call at any time the life-sustaining equipment has malfunctioned;
3. Ensure that information and procedures in the event of an emergency are in writing and attached to the life-sustaining equipment; and
4. Provide the consumer with sufficient emergency supplies and equipment, including, without limitation, redundant life-sustaining equipment, necessary to sustain the consumer until the medical products provider can service or repair the primary life-sustaining equipment. Redundant life-sustaining equipment provided pursuant to this subsection must operate in substantially the same manner as the primary life-sustaining equipment.

Nev. Admin. Code § 639.6955

Added to NAC by Bd. of Pharmacy by R008-01, eff. 11-1-2001; A by R033-07, 8-26-2008

NRS 639.070