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§ 1300.06 - Definitions relating to emergency medical services agencies.
(a) Any term not defined in this part shall have the definition set forth in section 102 of the Act (21 U.S.C. 802).
(b) As used in parts 1301, 1304, 1306, and 1307 of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings specified:
(1) Actively in use means the vehicle is currently engaged in responding to an emergency call, is transporting patients, or is on call as defined in this Part.
(2) Authorizing medical professional means an emergency or other physician, or other medical professional (including an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant)—
(i) Who is registered under 21 U.S.C. 823;
(ii) Who is acting within the scope of the registration; and
(iii) Whose scope of practice under a State license or certification includes the ability to provide verbal orders.
(3) Designated location means a location designated by an emergency medical services agency under 21 U.S.C. 823(k)(5).
(4) Emergency medical services mean emergency medical response and emergency mobile medical services provided outside of a fixed medical facility.
(5) Emergency medical services agency means an organization providing emergency medical services, including such an organization that—
(i) Is governmental (including fire-based and hospital-based agencies), non-governmental (including hospital-based agencies), private, or volunteer-based;
(ii) Provides emergency medical services by ground, air, or otherwise; and
(iii) Is authorized by the State in which the organization is providing such services to provide emergency medical care, including the administering of controlled substances, to members of the general public on an emergency basis.
(6) Emergency medical services professional means a health care professional (including a nurse, paramedic, or emergency medical technician) licensed or certified by the State in which the professional practices and credentialed by a medical director of the respective emergency medical services agency to provide emergency medical services within the scope of the professional's State license or certification.
(7) Emergency medical services vehicle means an ambulance, fire apparatus, supervisor truck, or other vehicle used by an emergency medical services agency for the purpose of providing or facilitating emergency medical care and transport or transporting controlled substances to and from the registered and designated locations.
(8) Hospital-based means, with respect to an emergency medical services agency, owned or operated by a hospital.
(9) Medical director means a physician who is registered under 21 U.S.C. 823(g) and provides medical oversight to an emergency medical services agency.
(10) Medical oversight means supervision of the provision of medical care by an emergency medical services agency.
(11) On call means that the emergency medical services vehicle and its personnel are ready and available to respond but may not be responding to an emergency at that precise moment.
(12) Registered emergency services agency means—
(i) An emergency medical services agency that is registered under 21 U.S.C. 823(k); or
(ii) A hospital-based emergency medical services agency that is covered by the registration of the hospital under subsection 823(g).
(13) Registered location means, for purposes of emergency medical services, a location that appears on a DEA certificate of registration issued to an emergency medical services agency under 21 U.S.C. 823(k) or 21 U.S.C. 823(g), which shall be where the agency receives controlled substances from distributors.
(14) Specific State authority means a governmental agency or other such authority, including a regional oversight and coordinating body, that, pursuant to State law or regulation, develops clinical protocols regarding the delivery of emergency medical services in the geographic jurisdiction of such agency or authority within the State that may be adopted by medical directors.
(15) Standing order means a written medical protocol in which a medical director determines in advance the medical criteria that must be met before administering controlled substances to individuals in need of emergency medical services.
(16) Stationhouse means an enclosed structure within a State where the emergency medical services agency is registered, which may house EMS vehicles at its premises, and which is actively and primarily being used by that emergency medical services agency.
(17) Verbal order means an oral directive that is given through any method of communication including by radio or telephone, directly to an emergency medical services professional, to contemporaneously administer a controlled substance to individuals in need of emergency medical services outside the physical presence of the medical director or authorizing medical professional.