EMS Council meets Tuesday

FRANKFORT — The next meeting of the Kentucky Emergency Medical Services Council will be held on Tuesday, May 16, at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

House Bill 405 has passed the Kentucky General Assembly and been signed into law by the Governor. The law calls for the transfer of all EMS-related functions to a new Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to be established later this year. The Kentucky EMS Council  and the EMS program overall will focus their attention to maintenance of that effort. For that reason, only the EMS Training Committee and the Medical Standards Committee will meet this month.

All meetings will be held Tuesday at the Berry Mansion in Frankfort. The Berry Mansion is located at 700 Louisville Road (US Hwy 60 West) adjacent to Juniper Hill Park.

Committees will meet and then bring items before the full EMS Council. The Training Committee will meet at 9 a.m. in the Music Room. The Medical Standards and Delegated Practice Committee will meet at 10:30 in the Music Room. 

Agenda items include:

Kentucky Emergency Medical Services Council

• Report from Kentucky EMS for Children Project
• Reports from Standing Committees
  • Medical Standards/Delegated Practice Committee
  • EMS Training Committee
  • EMS/Trauma Systems Committee
  • EMS for Children Committee
  • Steering/Legislative Committee
• Update and discussion on House Bill 405
  • Transition and functions from the Cabinet to the Board of EMS
  • Status of the Kentucky EMS Council
• Reports and announcements from other EMS groups and associations

Medical Standards / Delegated Practice Committee

• ALS protocols for review
  • Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (partial revision)
  • Net Care, Inc. (partial revision)
  • Somerset-Pulaski County EMS (partial revision)
  • Jackson County EMS (partial revision)
  • Rural/Metro of Lexington (complete revision)
  • Life First, Inc. EMS (Bullitt County) (ALS upgrade)
  • Morehead-Rowan County EMS (complete revision)
  • Estill County EMS (complete revision)
  • Medical Transportation Service (complete revision)
• Medical Director Review
  • Donald Kevin Gregory, MD (Ohio County EMS)
  • James M. Foster, MD (Jackson County Ambulance Service)
  • William Thomas Ashburn, MD (Knox County EMS, already approved as back-up)
  • David W. French, MD (Lyon County EMS)
  • Patrick B. VonDippe, MD (Pikeville Methodist Hospital Ambulance Service)
  • Mike Hilliard, MD (Fort Knox Ambulance Service)
  • James Evans, MD (Fort Thomas Fire Department Ambulance Service)
• Recommendation of approval of paramedic graduates for initial paramedic certification

Training Committee

• EMT First Responder
  • Status Reports
    • Classes completed
    • Working new first responders
    • New classes for second quarter
    • New curriculum
      • New test materials
      • Review of new tests for weaknesses
      • Development of new scenarios for teaching and testing
      • Review of other practical skill forms for revision
• EMT Basic
  • Status Reports
    • Task force report on developing new EMT-B practical skills certification examination scenarios for implementing July 1, 2000
    • Supplemental curricula task force report from March meeting. Mandatory EMT-B initial training and aptional ambulance service specific continuing education commencing with the effective date of 902 KAR 13:170
      • advanced airway management
      • monitoring, maintaining and discontinuing pre-established patient IV infusions
      • blood glucose analysis by automated device
      • use of non-invasive monitoring devices for CO2 monitoring, cardiac monitoring, pulse oximeter monitoring, and temperature monitoring
    • EMT-B numbers certified/recertified from 1994 through 2000 (projected)
    • Planned EMT Basic Instructor candidate evaluations for 2000
    • EMT regulation revision
    • HB 405 and its impact on the EMS Branch
      • Filling vacant positions in training and certification section
      • Continuing to perform training and certification functions, including complaint investigations
• EMT Paramedic
  • Status Reports
    • Training Issues
      • Paramedic training course applications
        • KCTCS/Area 14 and Somerset-Pulaski County EMS (Somerset)
        • KCTCS/Madisonville Tech College (Madisonville)
        • Eastern Kentucky University
        • KCTCS/Paducah Community College (Paducah)
        • Anchorage Fire and EMS (Anchorage)
        • KNOW HOW, Inc. (Louisville)
      • Paramedic course addendum
        • University of Cincinnati (request for field internship sites)
  • Recommendations to Council
    • Paramedics for certification

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