 EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN (EMT) SCOPE OF PRACTICE

 EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN (EMT) SCOPE OF PRACTICE "Emergency Medical Technician I" or "EMT-I" means a person who has successfully completed an EMT-I course which meets the requirements of this Chapter, has passed all required tests, and who has been certified by the EMT-I certifying authority. 100063. Scope of Practice of Emergency Medical Technician-I (EMT-I). a) During training, while at the scene of an emergency, during transport of the sick or injured, or during interfacility transfer, a supervised EMT-I student or certified EMT-I is authorized to do any of the following: 1) Evaluate the ill and injured. 2) Render basic life support, rescue and emergency medical care to patients. 3) Obtain diagnostic signs to include, but not be limited to the assessment of temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, level of consciousness, and pupil status. 4) Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including the use of mechanical adjuncts to basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 5) Use the following adjunctive airway breathing aids: A) oropharyngeal airway; B) nasopharyngeal airway; C) suction devices; D) basic oxygen delivery devices; and E) manual and mechanical ventilating devices designed for prehospital use. 6) Use various types of stretchers and body immobilization devices. 7) Provide initial prehospital emergency care of trauma. 8) Administer oral glucose or sugar solutions. 9) Extricate entrapped persons. 10) Perform field triage. 11) Transport patients. 12) Set up for ALS procedures, under the direction of an EMT-II or EMT-P. 13) Perform automated external defibrillation when authorized by an EMT AED service provider. 14) Assist patients with the administration of physician prescribed devices, including but not limited to, patient operated medication pumps, sublingual nitroglycerin, and self-administered emergency medications, including epinephrine devices. b) In addition to the activities authorized by subdivision (a) of this section, the medical director of the local EMS agency may also establish policies and procedures to allow a certified EMT-I or a supervised EMT- I student in the prehospital setting and/or during interfacility transport to: 1) Monitor intravenous lines delivering glucose solutions or isotonic balanced salt solutions including Ringer’s lactate for volume replacement;