Section 1797.171 Of Article 5. Personnel 1797.160-1797.197a From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2.5. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 5.
1797.171
. (a) The authority shall develop, and after approval of
the commission pursuant to Section 1799.50, shall adopt, minimum
standards for the training and scope of practice for EMT-II.
(b) An EMT-II shall complete a course of training on the nature of
sudden infant death syndrome in accordance with subdivision (b) of
Section 1797.170.
(c) In rural or remote areas of the state where patient transport
times are particularly long and where local resources are inadequate
to support an EMT-P program for EMS responses, the director may
approve additions to the scope of practice of EMT-IIs serving the
local system, if requested by the medical director of the local EMS
agency, and if the EMT-II has received training equivalent to that of
an EMT-P. The approval of the director, in consultation with a
committee of local EMS medical directors named by the Emergency
Medical Directors Association of California, is required prior to
implementation of any addition to a local optional scope of practice
for EMT-IIs proposed by the medical director of a local EMS agency.
No drug or procedure that is not part of the basic EMT-P scope of
practice, including, but not limited to, any approved local options,
shall be added to any EMT-II scope of practice pursuant to this
subdivision.
Approval of additions to the scope of practices pursuant to this
subdivision may be given only for EMT-II programs in effect on
January 1, 1994.