Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 641 - Emergency Medical Services
Subchapter 13 - Air Ambulance Service
Section 310:641-13-8 - Air ambulance medical staffing
Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 310:641-13-8
Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024
(a) Each air ambulance flight originating in Oklahoma shall have, as a minimum, one of the following aeromedical crew member attending the patient:
(1) a physician
licensed to practice in the State of Oklahoma. This crew member should at a
minimum be competent in the principles supported in Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Pediatric Education for
the Prehospital Professional (PEPP), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS),
altitude physiology, and on-board treatment modalities.
(2) a registered nurse licensed to practice
in the State of Oklahoma. This crew member should at a minimum be competent in
clinical principles of care related to critical care modalities, such as
obstetrics, neonatology, pediatrics, burns, cardiology, neurosurgery,
toxicology and infectious disease specialties, the principles of ATLS, altitude
physiology, training appropriate to mission profile, and aviation
communications.
(3) a Paramedic
licensed to practice in the State of Oklahoma. This crew member should at a
minimum be competent in altitude physiology, ACLS, PALS, PEPP and Pre-hospital
Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) or equivalent as approved by the
Department.
(b) Aeromedical crew members are required to participate in continuing education training for, but not limited to, the following: altitude physiology, emergency medical services and aviation communications, use of patient care equipment, protocol and procedure review and legal aspects of air transportation.
(1) Didactic continuing education shall
include an annual review of:
(A) hazardous
materials recognition and response.
(B) human factors - crew resource
management
(C) infection
control
(D) State EMS rules
regarding ground and air transport.
(E) Stress recognition and
management.
(2)
Appropriate continuing education shall be developed and documented on an annual
basis and must include:
(A) critical care
(adult, pediatric, neonatal).
(B)
emergency / trauma care.
(C)
invasive procedure labs.
(D)
emergency obstetrics
(E)
prehospital scene transports.
(c) Scene or pre-hospital transports of air ambulance service shall have as a minimum, one aeromedical crew member licensed as a Paramedic.
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