M-9, r. 2 - Regulation respecting the professional activities that may be engaged in within the framework of pre-hospital emergency services and care

Section 11 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

11. The ambulance technician trained in advanced care may, in addition to the activities referred to in sections 5 and 7:

(1)  administer intravenously or endotracheally the medications required by an adult person presenting a severe arrhythmia;

(2)  administer intravenously glucose to a person identified as diabetic who presents impaired consciousness due to hypoglycemia;

(3)  proceed with a direct laryngoscopy of a person more than 1 year of age whose respiratory tract is obstructed by a foreign body and proceed to withdraw it.

He may also, as part of a research project designed to evaluate advanced pre-hospital emergency care, proceed with the endotracheal intubation of an adult person experiencing cardiopulmonary arrest or with an impaired state of consciousness.

O.C. 887-2006, s. 11.