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SENATE BILL 5768
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By Senators Finkbeiner and Oke
Read first time 02/08/1999. Referred to Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care.
AN ACT Relating to emergency medical services; adding a new section to chapter 18.73 RCW; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 18.73 RCW to read as follows:
(1) Every emergency medical services medical program director shall design a training curriculum and develop protocols, subject to approval by the secretary, to allow emergency medical technicians to carry and administer epinephrine autoinjector devices by July 1, 2000. Every emergency medical technician shall successfully complete the training program within six months of the secretary's approval.
(2) The secretary shall develop standards and procedures for evaluating the training curriculum and protocols mentioned in subsection (1) of this section by January 1, 2000.
(3) Emergency medical technicians, performing patient care duties as an ambulance operator or attendant or as a member of an aid service, shall carry and may administer, according to protocols, epinephrine autoinjector devices for the treatment of patients found in anaphylactic shock if the emergency medical technician has successfully completed a training curriculum approved by the secretary.
(4) Nothing in this section authorizes the administration of epinephrine by a first responder.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act takes effect August 1, 1999.
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