147A.9 - REMOTE SUPERVISION -- EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION FAILURE -- AUTHORIZATION TO INITIATE EMERGENCY PROCEDURES.
147A.9 REMOTE SUPERVISION -- EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION
FAILURE -- AUTHORIZATION TO INITIATE EMERGENCY PROCEDURES.
1. When voice contact or a telemetered electrocardiogram is
monitored by a physician, physician's designee, or physician
assistant, and direct communication is maintained, an emergency
medical care provider may upon order of the monitoring physician or
upon standing orders of a physician transmitted by the monitoring
physician's designee or physician assistant perform any emergency
medical care procedure for which that emergency medical care provider
is certified.
2. If communications fail during an emergency or nonemergency
situation, the emergency medical care provider may perform any
emergency medical care procedure for which that individual is
certified and which is included in written protocols if in the
judgment of the emergency medical care provider the life of the
patient is in immediate danger and such care is required to preserve
the patient's life.
3. The department shall adopt rules to authorize medical care
procedures which can be initiated in accordance with written
protocols prior to the establishment of communication. Section History: Early Form
[C79, 81, § 147A.9] Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1287, § 9; 89 Acts, ch 89, §12; 93 Acts, ch 58, § 6,
7; 93 Acts, ch 107, § 2; 95 Acts, ch 41, §18; 99 Acts, ch 141, §25