65-6144. Emergency medical responder; authorized activities. (a) An emergency medical responder may perform any of the following interventions, by use of the devices, medications and equipment, or any combination thereof, after successfully completing an approved course of instruction, local specialized device training and competency validation and when authorized by medical protocols, or upon order when direct communication is maintained by radio, telephone or video conference is monitored by a physician, physician assistant when authorized by a physician, an advanced practice registered nurse when authorized by a physician or a professional nurse when authorized by a physician, upon order of such person:

(1) Emergency vehicle operations;

(2) initial scene management;

(3) patient assessment and stabilization;

(4) cardiac arrest management through the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator;

(5) airway management and oxygen therapy;

(6) utilization of equipment for the purposes of acquiring an EKG rhythm strip;

(7) control of bleeding;

(8) extremity splinting;

(9) spinal immobilization;

(10) nebulizer therapy;

(11) intramuscular injections with auto-injector;

(12) administration of medications as approved by the board by appropriate routes;

(13) recognize and comply with advanced directives;

(14) use of blood glucose monitoring;

(15) assistance with childbirth;

(16) non-invasive monitoring of hemoglobin derivatives;

(17) distribution of non prescription, over-the-counter medications as approved by the service medical director, except an emergency medical responder shall not distribute:

(A) Any compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any detectable quantity of ephedrine, its salts or optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers and is exempt from being reported to the statewide electronic logging system for the sale of methamphetamine precursors; or

(B) any compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any detectable quantity of pseudoephedrine, its salts or optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers and is exempt from being reported to the statewide electronic logging system for the sale of methamphetamine precursors; and

(18) other techniques and devices of preliminary care an emergency medical responder is trained to provide as approved by the board.

History: L. 1988, ch. 261, § 44; L. 1994, ch. 154, § 6; L. 1998, ch. 133, § 16; L. 2010, ch. 119, § 11; L. 2011, ch. 114, § 91; L. 2011, ch. 114, § 67; L. 2016, ch. 35, § 10; L. 2024, ch. 108, § 6; July 1.