NAC450B.383. Emergency medical technician: Authorized practices.

     1. An emergency medical technician may:

     (a) Render services in rescue, first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

     (b) Use an automatic external defibrillator or a semiautomatic external defibrillator to defibrillate a patient.

     (c) If licensed as an attendant, provide care for a sick or injured person at the scene of an emergency or during transportation of the person in accordance with written medical protocols approved by the Health Division.

     2. As used in this section:

     (a) “Automatic external defibrillator” means a device that is capable of the automatic analysis of heart rhythm and that will charge and deliver an electrical countershock after electronically detecting the presence of ventricular fibrillation or rapid ventricular tachycardia.

     (b) “Semiautomatic external defibrillator” means a device that is capable of electronically detecting ventricular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia, but which requires a command by the operator to deliver an electrical countershock.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 8-1-91; A by R055-99, 9-27-99; R182-01, 3-5-2002)