6.0 Medical Director Options

The following conditions must be met in order for your service to provide any of the following optional treatments as listed in this section:

1. The service must have a written policy adopting use of the procedure, in accordance with the terms of this Protocol section, and such policy is signed by the service’s affiliate hospital medical director.

2. The service’s affiliate hospital medical director must authorized each EMT to utilize the procedures in this section, based on your level of certification.

3. The service’s EMTs must be trained in accordance with the specific protocol to use the procedure and then be authorized by the affiliate hospital medical director.

4.      The service must complete a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) retrospective review   of applicable conditions that require 100% CQI to ensure compliance with the protocol.  The Department states within each protocol if 100% CQI is required.  For all other medical director options where 100% CQI is not Department required the service must follow its own standard CQI process.