Each emergency medical technician shall be authorized to perform any intervention specified in the following:

1. (a) K.S.A. 65-6144, and amendments thereto, and as further specified in K.A.R. 109-3-3; and

2. (b) K.S.A. 65-6121, and amendments thereto, and as further specified in the following paragraphs:

   1. (1) Airway maintenance by means of any of the following:

      1. (A) Blind insertion of a supraglottic airway, with the exception of the laryngeal mask airway;
      2. (B) oxygen venturi mask;
      3. (C) gastric decompression by orogastric or nasogastric tube with any authorized airway device providing that capability;
      4. (D) auscultating the quality of breath sounds;
      5. (E) pulse oximetry;
      6. (F) automatic transport ventilator;
      7. (G) manually triggered ventilator;
      8. (H) flow-restricted oxygen-powered ventilation device;
      9. (I) bag-valve-mask with in-line small-volume nebulizer;
      10. (J) carbon dioxide colorimetric detection;
      11. (K) capnometry; or
      12. (L) suctioning a stoma; and
   2. (2) administration of patient-assisted and non-patient-assisted medications according to the board's "approved medication list," which is adopted by reference in K.A.R. 109-3-3.

(Authorized by K.S.A. 65-6111; implementing K.S.A. 65-6121; effective March 9, 2012; amended May 5, 2017; amended Jan. 24, 2020.)