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Volume 60, No. 6

123/2017

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 11, 2017

B.C. Reg. 123/2017 , deposited March 29, 2017, under the EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES ACT [section 15]. Ministerial Order M146/2017, dated March 28, 2017.

I, Terry Lake, Minister of Health, order that the Emergency Medical Assistants

Regulation, B.C. Reg. 210/2010, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— T. LAKE, Minister of Health .

Schedule

1 The Emergency Medical Assistants Regulation, B.C. Reg. 210/2010, is amended by

adding the following Part:

Part 5 – Release Protocol

Requirement for protocol

(1) The corporation must establish a protocol to be used by an EMA who arrives at

a location in response to a request for ambulance services to determine when a person

who is assessed by the EMA

(

a) is to be transported to a place other than a facility, or

(

b) is not to be transported.

(2) The protocol must be restricted for use by an EMA who is

(

a) an employee of the corporation, or

(

b) an employee of an organization, body, person or government that has the written

consent of the corporation under

section 5.1 (3) (

c) of the Act to provide some or

all of the services set out in Schedules 1 and 2 of this regulation to a person who,

after being assessed as a result of a request for ambulance services, is not transported

to a facility.

(3) The protocol may apply to one or more classes of EMA.

Section 5 of

Schedule 1 is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(

c) use of incubators for thermoregulation.

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