SDCL § 36-4B-16.2: Permitted practice--Advanced emergency medical technician.

An advanced emergency medical technician may:

(1) Respond to, assess, and triage nonurgent, urgent, and emergent requests for medical care;

(2) Apply basic and focused advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care transportation;

(3) Perform interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found in an ambulance;

(4) Administer medications approved by the board;

(5) Perform focused advanced skills to mitigate specific life-threatening, medical, and psychological conditions with a targeted set of skills beyond the level of an emergency medical technician; and

(6) Perform other advanced skills approved by the board.