Public Act 094-0568
 
HB4014 Enrolled LRB094 05705 DRJ 41695 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act
is amended by changing Section 3.10 as follows:
 
    (210 ILCS 50/3.10)
    Sec. 3.10. Scope of Services.
    (a) "Advanced Life Support (ALS) Services" means an
advanced level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency
care and non-emergency medical services care that includes
basic life support care, cardiac monitoring, cardiac
defibrillation, electrocardiography, intravenous therapy,
administration of medications, drugs and solutions, use of
adjunctive medical devices, trauma care, and other authorized
techniques and procedures, as outlined in the Advanced Life
Support national curriculum of the United States Department of
Transportation and any modifications to that curriculum
specified in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this
Act.
    That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS
Medical Director in a Department approved advanced life support
EMS System, under the written or verbal direction of a
physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches
or under the verbal direction of an Emergency Communications
Registered Nurse.
    (b) "Intermediate Life Support (ILS) Services" means an
intermediate level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital
emergency care and non-emergency medical services care that
includes basic life support care plus intravenous cannulation
and fluid therapy, invasive airway management, trauma care, and
other authorized techniques and procedures, as outlined in the
Intermediate Life Support national curriculum of the United
States Department of Transportation and any modifications to
that curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department
pursuant to this Act.
    That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS
Medical Director in a Department approved intermediate or
advanced life support EMS System, under the written or verbal
direction of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all
of its branches or under the verbal direction of an Emergency
Communications Registered Nurse.
    (c) "Basic Life Support (BLS) Services" means a basic level
of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency care and
non-emergency medical services care that includes airway
management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), control of
shock and bleeding and splinting of fractures, as outlined in
the Basic Life Support national curriculum of the United States
Department of Transportation and any modifications to that
curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department
pursuant to this Act.
    That care shall be initiated, where authorized by the EMS
Medical Director in a Department approved EMS System, under the
written or verbal direction of a physician licensed to practice
medicine in all of its branches or under the verbal direction
of an Emergency Communications Registered Nurse.
    (d) "First Response Services" means a preliminary level of
pre-hospital emergency care that includes cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR), monitoring vital signs and control of
bleeding, as outlined in the First Responder curriculum of the
United States Department of Transportation and any
modifications to that curriculum specified in rules adopted by
the Department pursuant to this Act.
    (e) "Pre-hospital care" means those emergency medical
services rendered to emergency patients for analytic,
resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive purposes, precedent
to and during transportation of such patients to hospitals.
    (f) "Inter-hospital care" means those emergency medical
services rendered to emergency patients for analytic,
resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive purposes, during
transportation of such patients from one hospital to another
hospital.
    (g) "Non-emergency medical services care" means medical
care or monitoring services rendered to patients whose
conditions do not meet this Act's definition of emergency,
before or during transportation of such patients to or from
health care facilities visited for the purpose of obtaining
medical or health care services which are not emergency in
nature, using a vehicle regulated by this Act.
    (h) The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the use
of an ambulance or SEMSV for a non-medical transport (e.g. to
an individual's residence), unless and until emergency or
non-emergency medical services are needed during the use of the
ambulance or SEMSV such transport.
(Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)