Section 163-2-28 - MEDICAL CONTROLMEDICAL CONTROL is physician supervision of pre-hospital emergency medical care. More specifically, it is those actions taken to ensure that care provided on behalf of ill or injured patients is medically appropriate. Medical Control includes:
1. Online Medical Control: A. The contemporaneous physician direction of a field provider utilizing telecommunications, or in-person contact.B. This physician direction may be provided by a Physician Assistant or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse delegated by the physician(s) charged with medical oversight, pursuant to 32 M.R.S. §83(17-A).2. Medical Direction: A. The administrative medical direction of EMS personnel by a physician as designated in these Rules. Medical Direction includes interaction with operational and administrative aspects of EMS (for example, education and training, quality improvement, ambulance staffing, dispatch issues, and hospital destination).16-163 C.M.R. ch. 2, § 28