2019 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety
Chapter 13 - Emergency Medical Services
Subchapter 5 - Poison Control - Drug Information - Toxicological Laboratory Services
§ 20-13-503. Definitions
- As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Category I response” within the toxicology laboratory component means a response delivered within six (6) hours after receipt of the sample to be identified;
(2) “Category II response” within the toxicology laboratory component means a response delivered within twelve (12) hours after receipt of the sample to be identified;
(3) [Repealed.]
(4) [Repealed.]
(5) “Emergency request” means a request for emergency assistance initiated by any licensed Arkansas medical or allied health professional when life-jeopardizing circumstances require PC-DI-TL services to effectuate treatment;
(6) “Emergency sample” means any sample, nonroutine in nature, submitted to the toxicology laboratories for analysis as a necessary clinical adjunct to emergency patient treatment;
(7) “Information retrieval” within the PC-DI-TL context means a system which includes, but is not limited to:
(A) DEC-10 UAMS-Pharmacy computer terminal directly interfaced with the computer facility of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences facility containing six thousand (6,000) listings of the most commonly contacted poisons;
(B) A UAMS-Pharmacy microfiche system containing seventy-six thousand (76,000) listings of different products and management information together with extensive product identification information;
(C) A UAMS-Pharmacy “Tox-file”, a compilation of commercial products published by the National Clearinghouse for Poison Control Centers;
(D) A classic, widely accepted UAMS-Pharmacy resource reference, Gleason, Gosselin, & Hodge, Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products;
(E) UAMS-Pharmacy toxicity and overdosage manuals provided by national pharmaceutical firms;
(F) UAMS-Pharmacy resource toxicological library treating all subject matter for less common toxic materials, chemicals, and plants;
(G) UAMS-Pharmacy direct contact with medical directors of pharmaceutical manufacturing companies;
(H) UAMS-Library “MEDLINE” and “TOXLINE” computer database systems embracing bibliographic references to medical toxicological literature;
(I) UAMS-Library manual literature search, a trained searcher's use of library bibliographic sources such as indices, abstracts, and bibliographies to provide information requested;
(J) UAMS-Library drug reference search, a trained searcher's use of library drug lists, compendia, and other books to locate factual information of a drug, food, or other chemical substance; and
(K) UAMS-Library, de Haen, Drugs in Use, excerpted data from published literature on clinical use of a drug showing scope of study, drug used, dosage, concomitant therapy, disease condition, incidence or absence of adverse reactions, and description of effectiveness. This information is available on approximately two thousand (2,000) drugs;
(8) “Medical or allied health professional” means a licensed physician, nurse, pharmacist, dentist, psychologist, veterinarian, hospital administrator, hospital chemist, technician, or institutional chemist;
(9) “PC-DI-TL services system” means the Poison Control-Drug Information-Toxicological Laboratory Services Unitary System with three (3) definite and permanent components: UAMS-Pharmacy, UAMS-Library, and the Chemistry Branch of the Public Health Laboratory of the Department of Health;
(10) “Toxicology laboratory services” means those services provided the PC-DI-TL services system by the Chemistry Branch of the Public Health Laboratory of the Department of Health, which is that permanent component within the PC-DI-TL services system charged with toxicology laboratory services responsibility;
(11) “UAMS-Library” means the Library of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, which is that permanent component within the unitary system charged with nonemergency poison and drug information responsibility; and
(12) “UAMS-Pharmacy” means the Department of Pharmacology of the College of Pharmacy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, which is that permanent component within the unitary system charged with emergency poison and drug information responsibility.
