§ 1003.5. ALS service medical director.

 (a)  Roles and responsibilities. An ALS service medical director is responsible for the following:

   (1)  Providing medical guidance and advice to the ALS ambulance service, including:

     (i)   Reviewing the Statewide BLS medical treatment protocols and the regional transfer and medical treatment protocols, and ensuring that the ALS ambulance service’s prehospital personnel are familiar with them, and amendments and revisions thereto.

     (ii)   Providing guidance to the ALS ambulance service with respect to the ordering, stocking and replacement of drugs, and compliance with laws and regulations impacting upon the ALS ambulance service’s acquisition, storage and use of those drugs.

     (iii)   Participating in the regional and Statewide quality improvement plans, including continuous quality improvement reviews of patient care and its interaction with the regional EMS system.

     (iv)   Recommending to the relevant regional EMS council, when appropriate, specific transfer and medical treatment protocols for inclusion in the regional transfer and medical treatment protocols.

   (2)  Granting, denying or restricting medical command authorization to members of the ALS ambulance service’s prehospital personnel who require this authorization, and participating in appeals from decisions to deny or restrict medical command authorization in accordance with §  1003.28 (relating to medical command authorization).

   (3)  Performing medical audits of patient care provided by the ALS ambulance service’s prehospital personnel.

 (b)  Equivalent qualifications. If the ALS service medical director is not a medical command physician, the ALS service medical director shall:

   (1)  Possess the minimum qualifications for a medical command physician in §  1003.4(b)(1)—(5) (relating to medical command physician).

   (2)  Have experience in the medical command direction of prehospital personnel.

   (3)  Have knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of ambulances, including air ambulances, and prehospital personnel.

   (4)  Have knowledge of potential medical complications which may arise during transport of the patient by an ambulance service.

   (5)  Successfully complete the Medical Command Course.

   The provisions of this §  1003.5 amended October 13, 2000, effective October 14, 2000, 30 Pa.B. 5363. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (256615) to (256616).

   This section cited in 28 Pa. Code §  1001.2 (relating to definitions); 28 Pa. Code §  1007.7 (relating to licensure and general operating requirements); and 28 Pa. Code §  1007.8 (relating to disciplinary and corrective actions).