3073 – Definitions.
§ 3073. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. “State emergency medical services for children advisory committee” means the state emergency medical services for children advisory committee continued under this article. 2. “State emergency medical services council” means the state emergency medical services council established under article thirty of this chapter. 3. “State emergency medical […]
3074 – State Emergency Medical Services for Children Advisory Committee.
§ 3074. State emergency medical services for children advisory committee. 1. There is hereby continued in the department the state emergency medical services for children advisory committee. It shall consist of child health professionals and child health advocates representative of all geographic areas of the state and of those occupations regularly involved in the care […]
3075 – Powers and Duties of the Department.
§ 3075. Powers and duties of the department. 1. The department shall develop and maintain, with the advice of the state emergency medical services for children advisory committee, the state emergency medical services council, the state emergency medical advisory committee, and the state trauma advisory committee, a statewide system for recognition of facilities able to […]
3070 – Short Title.
§ 3070. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “emergency medical services for children act”.
3071 – Declaration of Purpose.
§ 3071. Declaration of purpose. Sudden illness and injury in children within the state of New York are responsible for five percent of all ambulance calls in children under ten years of age, ten percent of all ambulance calls in children under eighteen years of age, twenty-five percent of emergency department visits in urban areas, […]
3072 – Description.
§ 3072. Description. Emergency medical services for children is a system for the immediate recognition and management of sudden illness and injury in children that embraces the continuum of pediatric emergency medical, trauma, and disaster care, from prevention through rehabilitation, and addresses emergency medical dispatch, prehospital emergency care, inhospital emergency care, and primary, secondary, and […]