Section 1797.53 Of Chapter 2. Definitions From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2.5. >> Chapter 2.
1797.53
. "Alternative base station" means a facility or service
operated and directly supervised by, or directly supervised by, a
physician and surgeon who is trained and qualified to issue advice
and instructions to prehospital emergency medical care personnel,
which has been approved by the medical director of the local EMS
agency to provide medical direction to advanced life support or
limited advanced life support personnel responding to a medical
emergency as part of the local EMS system, when no qualified hospital
is available to provide that medical direction.