EMS Council agenda

Training Committee (meets Wednesday, Feb. 17, 14:00 - 17:00 EST, Second Floor Board Room, Health Services Building, Frankfort).

1. EMT First Responder

a. Status Reports:
(1) EMT-FR Instructors Rollout Train the Trainer Sessions: (Glenn Lewis)
(2) EMT-FR Course, revised supplies and equipment list. (Glenn Lewis)
(3) EMT-FR Course, revised skill examination sheets. (Glenn Lewis)
(4) EMT-FR written examination for additional Kentucky certification requirements. (Discussion)

b. Recommendations to the Council
(1) Approval of items numbers (2) and (3) above.

c. Other as determined by Chairperson.

2. EMT-Basic

a. Status Reports:

(1) Review of the new and revised EMT-B curricula. These curricula are planned to be added to the proposed EMT-B core course upon adoption of the proposed EMT-B regulations. Training Committee members assignments are listed below.
(a) Advanced airway management (Julia Martin, MD)
(b) Maintenance of pre-established IV fluids for patients during pre-hospital and interfacility transports (Karen Freeman, RN, EMT-B Instr.)
(c) Use of glucometer (Lee Brown, RN, EMT-P)
(d) Use of non-invasive monitoring devices (Charles O'Neal, EMT-P, EMT-Inst.)
(i) Pule Oximetry
(ii) End Tidal CO2 Monitoring
(iii) Temperature Monitoring
(iv) EKG Cardiac Monitoring

(2) Review of the EMT-B Instructor Candidate Evaluation Process.
(a) Analysis report by Marcia Burklow
(b) Standards for evaluation process / current
(c) Proposed evaluation manual

(3) Review of Continuing Education Form for EMT-B certification renewal data. This will be implemented with the revised EMT regulations. Note: In the near future attention will need to be given to develop a Kentucky approved EMT-B refresher course to meet this need after the Kentucky EMT-B Transition Course phases out effective 1/1/00.

(4) Review of Revised Summary Forms for Kentucky EMT-B Practical Skills Certification Examination. Plans underway to start implementing use of these forms for April 1999 scheduled examinations.

(5) Status of EMS Branch HIV/AIDS Course CHS# 0200-746-M

(b) Recommendations to Council

(1) Approval of EMT-B revised additional curricula that have been reviewed and approved by the Medical Standards and Delegated Practice Committee

(2) Approval of plan to deal with the approximately 100 "waiting list" potential EMT-B Instructor Candidates who have partially met requirements according to current regulations and who desire to be evaluated for Kentucky certification by the new process.

(3) Approval of EMT-B revised continuing education form to be used in conjunction with revised EMT regulations.

(4) Approval of revised Summary Forms for implementation in Kentucky Practical Skills Certification Examinations.

(c) Other as determined by Chairperson.

3. EMT-Paramedic

a. Training Applications:

(1) Paramedic Course Applications (Reviewers)
(a) Yellow Ambulance Service (Hopkinsville) - Terry Akin
(b) Hazard Community College - Lee Brown
(c) Ephraim McDowell Reg. Med. Ctr. - Charlie O'Neal
(d) South Central Kentucky HETC - Ken Knipper

Addendum:
(a) Pikeville Methodist Hospital - Charlie O'Neal

(2) Report on Paramedic Boards for April 1999

(3) Special Requests for Consideration:
(a) Patient Restraint and EMS - Rockey Johnson, EMT-P

(b) Recommendations to Council

(c) Other as determined by Chairperson

4. Date of Next Meeting: 10:00 AM March 19, 1999

Emergency Medical Services/Trauma Systems Committee (meets Tuesday, Feb. 23, 08:00 - 10:30 EST, Second Floor Board Room, Health Services Building, Frankfort).

1. Review of proposed revisions to Kentucky ambulance regulations.

2. Healthy People 2010 Objectives: Review of proposed EMS Objectives and Development of Strategies for inclusion in Kentucky Plan.

3. Other business

Medical Standards/Delegated Practice Committee (meets Tuesday, Feb. 23, 10:30 - 12:30 EST, Auditorium, Health Services Building, Frankfort).

1. ALS Protocols for Review:

a. Campbellsville-Taylor County Rescue (complete revision) - Bernardon
b. Perry County Ambulance Authority (interfacility transport) - O'Brien
c. Left Beaver Civil Defense & Rescue Squad, Inc. (partial revision) - O'Brien
d. American Medical Response (interfacility resubmit) - O'Brien
e. Marshall County Ambulance Service (partial revision) - Bentley
f. McCreary County Ambulance Service (partial revision) - Bentley
g. Anchorage EMS (partial revision) - Partin
h. Edmonson County Ambulance Service (partial revision) - Bernardon
i. Jackson County Ambulance Service (new) -Partin

2. Medical Director Review:

a. Paul Hester, MD - Ambulance Inc. of Laurel County
b. Keith Clifton, MD - Jackson County Ambulance Service
c. Hollis Hilty, MD - Central Baptist Hospital

3. Special Requests:

a. Cumberland County - transportation of blood products by paramedics
b. Montgomery County - AED program concerns
c. Patient Restraint Issues - Rockey Johnson, EMT-P
d. Medic Alert DNR Program - Dr. O'Brien
e. Medical Protocol Project - Dr. O'Brien

4. New and Revised Curricula for EMT-Basic Core Course - Charlie O'Neal

5. Set next meeting date.

EMS Council (meets Tuesday, Feb. 23, 13:30 EST, Auditorium, Health Services Building, Frankfort).

1. Call to Order and Introductions

2. Adopt minutes of the Nov. 17, 1998 meeting

3. Reports from standing committees:

a. EMS Training Committee - Charles O'Neal, EMT-P, Chair
b. EMS/Trauma System Committee - Sherman Hockenbury, EMT-P, Chair
c. Medical Standards/Delegated Practice Committee - Dan O'Brien, MD, Chair
d. Steering/Legislative Committee - Paul Kearney, MD, Chair (no meeting)

4. Other old business

5. New business

a. Establishment of EMS for Children Committee to comply with HB 249
(1) Membership, role and function

6. Report from Kentucky EMS for Children Project - Susan Pollack, MD, and Coy Harris, EMT-P

7. Reports from other EMS groups and associations (if available)

8. Set next meeting and schedule for Tuesday, May 26, 1999

9. Adjourn

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