Full Text of HB4014 94th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act | 5 |
| is amended by changing Section 3.10 as follows:
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| (210 ILCS 50/3.10)
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| Sec. 3.10. Scope of Services.
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| (a) "Advanced Life Support (ALS) Services" means
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| advanced level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency
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| care and non-emergency medical services
care that includes | 11 |
| basic life
support care, cardiac monitoring, cardiac | 12 |
| defibrillation,
electrocardiography, intravenous therapy, | 13 |
| administration of
medications, drugs and solutions, use of | 14 |
| adjunctive medical
devices, trauma care, and other authorized | 15 |
| techniques and
procedures, as outlined in the Advanced Life | 16 |
| Support
national curriculum of the United States Department of
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| Transportation and any modifications to that curriculum
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| specified in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to
this | 19 |
| Act.
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| That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS
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| Medical Director in a Department approved advanced life
support | 22 |
| EMS System, under the written or verbal direction of
a | 23 |
| physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its
branches | 24 |
| or under the verbal direction of an Emergency
Communications | 25 |
| Registered Nurse.
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| (b) "Intermediate Life Support (ILS) Services"
means an | 27 |
| intermediate level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital
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| emergency care and non-emergency medical services
care that | 29 |
| includes
basic life support care plus intravenous cannulation | 30 |
| and
fluid therapy, invasive airway management, trauma care, and
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| other authorized techniques and procedures, as outlined in
the | 32 |
| Intermediate Life Support national curriculum of the
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| States Department of Transportation and any
modifications to | 2 |
| that curriculum specified in rules adopted
by the Department | 3 |
| pursuant to this Act.
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| That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS
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| Medical Director in a Department approved intermediate or
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| advanced life support EMS System, under the written or
verbal | 7 |
| direction of a physician licensed to practice
medicine in all | 8 |
| of its branches or under the verbal
direction of an Emergency | 9 |
| Communications Registered Nurse.
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| (c) "Basic Life Support (BLS) Services" means a
basic level | 11 |
| of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency care and
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| non-emergency medical services
care that includes airway | 13 |
| management,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), control of | 14 |
| shock and
bleeding and splinting of fractures, as outlined in | 15 |
| the Basic Life Support
national curriculum of the United States
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| Department of Transportation and any modifications to that
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| curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department
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| pursuant to this Act.
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| That care shall be initiated, where authorized by the
EMS | 20 |
| Medical Director in a Department approved EMS System,
under the | 21 |
| written or verbal direction of a physician
licensed to practice | 22 |
| medicine in all of its branches or
under the verbal direction | 23 |
| of an Emergency Communications
Registered Nurse.
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| (d) "First Response Services" means a preliminary
level of | 25 |
| pre-hospital emergency care that includes
cardiopulmonary | 26 |
| resuscitation (CPR), monitoring vital signs
and control of | 27 |
| bleeding, as outlined in the First Responder
curriculum of the | 28 |
| United States Department of Transportation
and any | 29 |
| modifications to that curriculum specified in rules
adopted by | 30 |
| the Department pursuant to this Act.
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| (e) "Pre-hospital care" means those emergency
medical | 32 |
| services rendered to emergency patients for analytic,
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| resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive purposes,
precedent | 34 |
| to and during transportation of such patients to
hospitals.
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| (f) "Inter-hospital care" means those emergency
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| services rendered to emergency patients for
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| resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive
purposes, during | 2 |
| transportation of such patients from one
hospital to another | 3 |
| hospital.
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| (g) "Non-emergency medical services
care " means medical | 5 |
| care or monitoring
services rendered to
patients whose | 6 |
| conditions do not meet this Act's definition of emergency, | 7 |
| before or
during transportation of such patients to or from | 8 |
| health care facilities visited for the
purpose of obtaining | 9 |
| medical or health care services which are not emergency in
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| nature, using a vehicle regulated by this Act.
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| (h)
The provisions of this Act shall not apply to
the use | 12 |
| of an ambulance or SEMSV for a non-medical transport
(e.g. to | 13 |
| an individual's residence) , unless and until
emergency or | 14 |
| non-emergency medical services are needed
during the use of the | 15 |
| ambulance or SEMSV
such transport .
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| (Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)
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