(a) The medical director for emergency medical service dispatch services using emergency medical dispatchers (EMD's) shall
- (1) approve an emergency medical dispatch priority reference system; the system must include caller interrogation questions, pre-arrival EMS instructions, and protocols matching the dispatcher's evaluation of severity of injury or illness and the number of victims with vehicle response modes and configurations;
- (2) provide indirect supervision of medical triage decisions and treatment instructions provided by EMD's;
- (3) periodically review on at least a monthly basis a sample of medical triage decisions and treatment instructions provided by EMD's to callers.
- (b) The medical director of the emergency medical dispatcher services may be the medical director of an ambulance service dispatched by the same agency or business.
(Eff. 4/7/96, Register 138)
Authority: AS 18.08.080, AS 18.08.082, AS 18.08.084