KRS 311A.010: Definitions for chapter.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Advanced emergency medical technician" or "AEMT" means a person certified by

the board under this chapter as an advanced emergency medical technician;

(2) "Advanced practice paramedic" or "APP" means a paramedic licensed by the board

under this chapter as a paramedic and certified by the board under this chapter in at

least one (1) emergency medical services subspecialty, including community

paramedic, critical care paramedic, wilderness p aramedic, tactical paramedic, or

flight paramedic;

(3) "Ambulance" means a vehicle which has been inspected and approved by the board,

including a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft, except vehicles or aircraft operated by

the United States government, that are specially designed, constructed, or have been

modified or equipped with the intent of using the same, for the purpose of

transporting any individual who is sick, injured, or otherwise incapacitated who

may require immediate stabilization or continued medical response and intervention

during transit or upon arrival at the patient's destination to safeguard the patient's

life or physical well-being;

(4) "Ambulance provider" or "ambulance service" means any individual or private or

public organization, ex cept the United States government, who is licensed by the

board to provide medical services that may include transport at either basic life

support level or advanced life support level and who may have a vehicle or

vehicles, including ground vehicles, heli copters, or fixed -wing aircraft, to provide

such transportation;

(5) "Board" means the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services;

(6) "Community paramedic" or "CP" means an advanced practice paramedic certified

under this chapter as a CP;

(7) "Emergency medical facility" means a hospital or any other institution licensed by

the Cabinet for Health and Family Services that furnishes emergency medical

services;

(8) "Emergency medical responder" or "EMR" means a person certified under this

chapter as an EMR or EMR instructor;

(9) "Emergency medical services" or "EMS" means the services utilized in providing

care for the perceived individual need for immediate medical care to protect against

loss of life, or aggravation of physiological or psychological illness or injury;

(10) "Emergency medical services educator" or "EMS educator" means a person who is

certified and licensed by the board under this chapter as a Level I, II, or III EMS

educator to provide emergency medical services education and training with the

scope of practice established by the board through administrative regulations;

(11) "Emergency Medical Services for Children Program" or "EMSC Program" means

the program established under this chapter;

(12) "Emergency medical services medical director" means a physician licensed in

Kentucky and certified by the board under this chapter who is employed by, under

contract to, or has volunteered to provide supervision for a paramedic or an

ambulance service, or both;

(13) "Emergency medical services personnel" means:

(a) Persons trained to pro vide emergency medical services and certified or

licensed by the board under this chapter as an AEMT, APP, EMR, EMR

instructor, EMT, EMT instructor, paramedic, or paramedic instructor; and

(b) Authorized emergency medical services medical directors and mob ile

integrated healthcare program medical directors, whether on a paid or

volunteer basis;

(14) "Emergency medical services system" means a coordinated system of health -care

delivery that responds to the needs of acutely sick and injured adults and childre n,

and includes community education and prevention programs, mobile integrated

healthcare programs, centralized access and emergency medical dispatch,

communications networks, trained emergency medical services personnel, medical

first response, ground and air ambulance services, trauma care systems, mass

casualty management, medical direction, and quality control and system evaluation

procedures;

(15) "Emergency medical services training and education institute" means any

organization licensed by the board under this chapter whose sole program of

instruction is to provide an emergency medical services training program, other

than a licensed ambulance service which provides training, or in-service training in-

house for its own employees or volunteers;

(16) "Emergency medical services training program" means a program of instruction

providing training or education for initial certification, advanced certification, in -

service training, or continuing education of emergency medical services personnel,

whether through an emergency medical services training and education institute or

otherwise;

(17) "Emergency medical technician" or "EMT" means a person certified under this

chapter as an EMT or EMT instructor;

(18) "Executive director" means the executive director o f the Kentucky Board of

Emergency Medical Services;

(19) "Mobile integrated healthcare" or "MIH" means a program licensed by the board

under this chapter to provide services including evaluation, advice, and medical

care for the purpose of preventing or im proving a particular medical condition

outside of a hospital setting to eligible patients who do not require or request

emergency medical transportation;

(20) "Mobile integrated healthcare program medical director" or "MIH program medical

director" means a physician licensed in Kentucky and certified by the board under

this chapter who is employed by, under contract to, or has volunteered to provide

supervision for a licensed MIH program;

(21) "Paramedic" means a person who is involved in the delivery of me dical services

and is licensed under this chapter;

(22) "Paramedic preceptor" means a licensed paramedic who supervises a paramedic

student during the field portion of the student's training;

(23) "Prehospital care" means the provision of emergency medical services, mobile

integrated healthcare, or transportation by trained and certified or licensed

emergency medical services personnel at the scene or while transporting sick or

injured persons to a hospital or other emergency medical facility; and

(24) "Trauma" means a single or multisystem life -threatening or limb-threatening injury

requiring immediate medical or surgical intervention or treatment to prevent death

or permanent disability.