Section 7-3 - Sponsor Hospital (a) An ALS service shall obtain the commitment of a sponsor hospital.
(b) The system shall be approved by the hospital administrator and chief of the medical staff of the sponsor hospital.
(c) Eligibility requirements. The sponsor hospital: - (i) For an EMT Intermediate system, shall have a registered nurse on duty for the emergency room twenty-four (24) hours a day and capable of constant voice communication coverage with a physician.
- (ii) For a Paramedic system, shall have a registered nurse, on duty in the emergency room twenty-four (24) hours a day and capable of constant voice communication coverage with a physician.
- (A) The registered nurse shall:
- (I) (Be) current in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) with the standards of the American Heart Association;
- (II) Have audited the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course of the American College of Surgeons or an equivalent nursing trauma course;
- (III) Function in accordance with the Wyoming Nursing Act; W.S. 33-21-119, et seq.; and
- (IV) Be immediately available at all times to communicate with EMT Intermediate, or Paramedic personnel in the field.
- (B) The Physician shall:
- (I) Be current in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) with the standards of the American College of Surgeons or its equivalent from the American College of Emergency Physicians;
- (II) Be current in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) with the standards of the American Heart Association;
- (III) Be available to communicate with the EMT Intermediate or Paramedic personnel in the field;
- (IV) Explain the medical role of EMT Intermediate and Paramedic personnel to appropriate hospital staff;
- (V) Cooperate with the Division in the collection of statistical data;
- (VI) Maintain direct communications capability between the sponsor hospital and the ALS service(s);
- (VII) Provide clinical experience with supervision for trainees during the training program and for continuing medical education;
- (VIII) Provide for audit in review of EMT Intermediate cases and Paramedic advanced life support cases as outlined in Chapter 8. All concerned EMT Intermediate or Paramedic personnel shall attend the meetings; and
- (IX) Practice in a hospital which has an intensive care unit or a monitored bed unit (MBU).