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§23-78.1-5  Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke patients. –


Published: 2015

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TITLE 23

Health and Safety

CHAPTER 23-78.1

Stroke Prevention and Treatment Act of 2009

SECTION 23-78.1-5



   § 23-78.1-5  Emergency medical services

providers; triage and transportation of stroke patients. –

(a) The department of health, division of emergency medical services and the

ambulance service advisory board shall adopt and distribute a nationally

recognized standardized assessment tool for stroke. The division of emergency

medical services shall post this stroke assessment tool on its website and

provide a copy of the assessment tool to each licensed emergency medical

services provider no later than January 1, 2010. Each licensed emergency

medical services provider must use the stroke-triage assessment tool provided

by the department of health, division of emergency medical services;



   (b) The department of health, division of emergency medical

services and the ambulance service advisory board shall establish pre-hospital

care protocols related to the assessment, treatment, and transport of stroke

patients by licensed, emergency medical services providers in this state. Such

protocols may include plans for the triage and transport of acute stroke

patients to the closest comprehensive or primary stroke center as appropriate

and within a specified timeframe of onset of symptoms. The stroke pre-hospital

care protocols shall be reviewed on an annual basis;



   (c) By June 1 of each year, the department of health,

division of emergency medical services (emergency medical services), shall send

the list of comprehensive and primary stroke centers to each licensed emergency

medical services agency in this state and shall post a list of comprehensive

and primary stroke centers on the division of emergency medical services

website. For the purposes of this chapter, the division of emergency medical

services may include comprehensive and primary stroke centers in Massachusetts

and Connecticut that are certified by the joint commission, or are otherwise

designated by that state's department of public health as meeting the criteria

for comprehensive or primary stroke centers as established by the brain attack

coalition;



   (d) Each emergency medical services provider must comply with

all sections of this chapter by June 1, 2010.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2009, ch. 88, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 89, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 99,

§ 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 108, § 1.)