1. (a) An emergency medical services provider who is exposed to blood or body fluids while providing emergency medical services to a patient may request notification concerning exposure to a dangerous communicable disease under this chapter if the exposure is of a type that has been demonstrated epidemiologically to transmit a dangerous communicable disease.
2. (b) If an emergency medical services provider desires to be notified of results of testing following a possible exposure to a dangerous communicable disease under this chapter, the emergency medical services provider shall notify the emergency medical services provider's employer not more than twenty-four (24) hours after the emergency medical services provider is exposed on a form that is prescribed by the state department and the Indiana emergency medical services commission.

3. (c) The emergency medical services provider shall distribute a copy of the completed form required under subsection (b) to the following:

   1. (1) If applicable, the medical director of the emergency department of the medical facility:

      1. (A) to which the patient was admitted following the exposure; or
      2. (B) in which the patient was located at the time of the exposure.
   2. (2) The emergency medical services provider's employer.

   3. (3) The state department.

      [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-45-5.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.186-1995, SEC.16; P.L.212-2003, SEC.6.