2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-78.1 - Stroke Prevention and Treatment Act of 2009
Chapter 23-78.1-5 - Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke patients.
§ 23-78.1-5 Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke patients. – (a) The department of health, division of EMS and the ambulance service advisory board shall adopt and distribute a nationally recognized standardized assessment took for stroke. The division of EMS 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 EMS;
(b) The department of health, division of EMS 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 primary stroke center as appropriate and within a specified timeframe of onset of symptoms;
(c) By June 1 of each year, the department of health, division of emergency medical services (EMS), shall send the list of primary stroke centers to each licensed emergency medical services agency in this state and shall post a list of primary stroke centers on the division of EMS website. For the purposes of this chapter, the division of EMS may include 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 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.)
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