Emergency Medical Services and Patient Surge Essential Legal Issues
Hodge, J., Orenstein, D., Weidenaar, K., et al.
(2015).
Emergency Medical Services and Patient Surge: Essential Legal Issues.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
This hour-long webinar and its accompanying 124-page report feature research and analysis of legal issues impacting emergency medical Services (EMS) providers and others during medical surge. Topics include: identifying emergency, disaster, or public health emergency authorities; use of protocols to authorize specific actions among EMS providers; licensing reciprocity for EMS providers; modifying scopes of practice for emergency medical technicians and paramedics; state equivalents or extensions of requirements pursuant to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act concerning screening and treatment at non-hospital sites; and legal accountability for EMS providers.
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