For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings:
Advanced Life Support.
Emergency pre-hospital care provided by a certified, specially
skilled emergency medical technician or a paramedic emergency medical
technician using invasive medical acts under the medical supervision
and control of a licensed physician.
Ambulance.
Any motor vehicle used, designed or redesigned or constructed
and equipped for the transportation of sick or injured persons.
Basic Emergency Medical Technician.
An individual who has received a minimum of one hundred and
twenty (120) hours of training approved by the fire department and
who is certified by the department as minimally proficient to perform
emergency pre-hospital care that is necessary for basic life support
and that includes the control of hemorrhaging and cardiopulmonary
resuscitation.
Basic Life Support.
Emergency pre-hospital care provided by an emergency care
attendant or basic emergency medical technician using noninvasive
medical acts. The provision of basic life support may be under the
medical supervision and control of a licensed physician.
Emergency.
An emergency in any circumstance that calls for an immediate
action and which the element of time in transporting the sick, wounded
or injured for medical treatment is essential to the health or life
of any person. Such circumstances include, but are not limited to
general accidents, traffic accidents and acts of violence resulting
in personal injury, and sudden illness.
Emergency Ambulance.
Any ambulance responding to an emergency call using warning
lights or horn or sirens.
Emergency Call.
Any request for an ambulance that is made by telephone or
other means of communication in circumstances which are or have been
represented to be an emergency requiring emergency pre-hospital care
or transport to a medical facility.
Emergency Care Attendant.
An individual who has completed a minimum of forty-eight
(48) hours of training approved by the department and who is certified
by the department to provide emergency pre-hospital care by providing
initial aid that promotes comfort and avoids aggravation of an injury
or illness.
Emergency Medical Service Personnel.
An emergency care attendant, basic emergency medical technician,
specially skilled emergency medical technician or a paramedic emergency
medical technician.
Emergency Pre-Hospital Care.
Care provided to the sick or injured during emergency transportation
to medical facility, including any necessary stabilization of the
sick or injured in connection with the transportation.
Emergency Transfer.
The immediate transportation of a patient in an ambulance
requiring any or all of the following: monitoring of EKG, administration
of intravenous fluids or medications and airway maintenance.
EMS.
The emergency medical service unit of the Hillsboro Fire
Department.
Medical Facility.
Any building or place of business established for the purpose
of examination or treatment by a licensed physician of individuals
that are sick or injured.
Nurse/Paramedic.
An individual who is a paramedic and in addition, holds a
state license of a registered nurse.
Paramedic Emergency Medical Technician.
An individual who has successfully completed the basic emergency
medical technician requirements and an additional minimum of four
hundred (400) hours of training approved by the Texas Department of
Health and who is certified by the department as minimally proficient
to provide emergency pre-hospital care by providing advanced life
support that includes initiation under medical supervision of intravenous
therapy, endotracheal or esophageal intubation or both, electrical
cardiac defibrillation or cardioversion, drug therapy and other invasive
procedures.
(Ordinance 93-12-21 adopted 12/21/93)
(a) All
calls for emergency ambulance service within the city limits of Hillsboro
shall be directed to and responded to solely by the City of Hillsboro
Emergency Medical Service unless directed otherwise herein. This article
shall not apply to emergency or transfer services operated by other
political subdivisions or governmental agencies.
(b) When
there exists in the City of Hillsboro a licensed and franchised ambulance
transfer service, then in that event, all inter-city transfer calls
and service shall be responded to solely by said inter-city franchise
holder(s) under the rules and regulations of this article and of the
franchise.
(Ordinance 93-12-21 adopted 12/21/93)