2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 10C - Cardiac Arrest Response
Section 24-10C-3 - Definitions.
As used in the Cardiac Arrest Response Act:
A. "automated external defibrillator" means a medical device heart monitor and defibrillator that:
(1) has received approval of its premarket modification filed pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 360(k), from the United States food and drug administration;
(2) is capable of recognizing cardiac arrest that will respond to defibrillation, ventricular fibrillation or rapid ventricular tachycardia, and is capable of determining whether defibrillation should be performed; and
(3) upon determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and is capable of delivering an electrical impulse to an individual's heart;
B. "automated external defibrillator program" means a program of trained targeted responders registered with the department;
C. "defibrillation" means the administration of a controlled electrical charge to the heart to restore a viable cardiac rhythm;
D. "department" means the department of health;
E. "good Samaritan" means a person who lacks automated external defibrillator training but who has access to an automated external defibrillator and provides emergency automated external defibrillator services to a person in need of defibrillation, provided that the good Samaritan:
(1) acts without willful, wanton or reckless behavior that is the cause of injury or death; and
(2) acts without compensation;
F. "person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or any legal or commercial entity; and
G. "trained targeted responder" means a person trained in the use of an automated external defibrillator under emergency cardiac care guidelines.
History: Laws 1999, ch. 94, § 3; 2007, ch. 163, § 1; 2015, ch. 33, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2015 amendment, effective June 19, 2015, amended certain definitions as used in the Cardiac Arrest Response Act; in Subsection B, after "department", deleted "and operating under the supervision of a physician medical director"; in Subsection E, after "person in", deleted "apparent cardiac arrest" and added "need of defibrillation"; in Paragraph (1) of Subsection E, after "acts", deleted "in good faith as an ordinary prudent person would have in the same or similar circumstances" and added "without willful, wanton or reckless behavior that is the cause of injury or death"; deleted former Subsection F relating to the definition of "physician"; and added a new Subsection F.
The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, added Subsection E defining "good Samaritan".
