ยง 3003-b. Availability of ambulance service that provides
transportation by aircraft to store and distribute blood and initiate
and administer blood transfusions. 1. An ambulance service licensed
under this article that provides transportation by aircraft may store
and distribute human blood and blood products at all their facilities
and qualified medical and health personnel, as defined in this article,
operating within an ambulance service licensed under this article, may
initiate and administer human blood and blood product transfusions while
providing air transport services. As used in this section, "air
transport services" means emergency medical care and the transportation
of sick or injured persons by aircraft to, from or between general
hospitals or other health care facilities.
2. Notwithstanding title five of article five of this chapter, any
ambulance service licensed under this article that provides
transportation by aircraft and only for purposes of providing air
transport services, may store and distribute human blood and blood
products in accordance with standards for the storage of blood products
of the United States Food and Drug Administration and any rules,
regulations, guidance or minimum standards established pursuant to this
section.
3. Prior to storing and distributing blood or allowing qualified
medical and health personnel to initiate and administer blood
transfusions under this section, the ambulance service shall ensure that
it is in compliance with the rules, regulations, guidance or minimum
standards established pursuant to this section and other applicable
emergency medical service requirements, and shall provide notification
of intent to store and distribute blood or allow qualified medical and
health personnel to initiate and administer blood transfusions as part
of their air transport services at least sixty days prior to beginning
such care.
4. The state emergency medical services council, with the approval of
the commissioner, shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate
the purposes of this section.
Structure New York Laws
Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services
3000 - Declaration of Policy and Statement of Purpose.
3000-A - Emergency Medical Treatment.
3000-B - Automated External Defibrillators: Public Access Providers.
3000-C - Epinephrine Auto-Injector Devices.
3000-D - Availability of Resuscitation Equipment in Certain Public Places.
3000-E - Rescue Inhaler Treatment Devices.
3002 - New York State Emergency Medical Services Council.
3002-A - State Emergency Medical Advisory Committee.
3003 - Regional Emergency Medical Services Councils.
3003-A - Ems Program Agencies.
3004 - Emergency Medical Services System and Agency Performance Standards.
3004-A - Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committees.
3005 - Ambulance Service Certificates.
3005-A - Staffing Standards; Ambulance Services and Advanced Life Support First Response Services.
3005-B - Emergency Medical Technician Five Year Re-Certification Demonstration Program.
3006 - Quality Improvement Program.
3007 - Notice of Alternative Destination.
3008 - Applications for Determinations of Public Need.
3009 - Continuation of Existing Services.
3010 - Area of Operation; Transfers.
3011 - Powers and Duties of the Department and the Commissioner.
3013 - Immunity From Liability.
3016 - Continuance of Rules and Regulations.
3017 - Emergency Medical Service, Suffolk County.
3018 - Community-Based Paramedicine Demonstration Program.
3020 - Recruitment and Retention.
3030 - Advanced Life Support Services.
3031 - Advanced Life Support System.