§ 24-72. Standards for basic life support ambulance equipment.

(a)

The equipment required in an ambulance, necessary to provide basic life support, shall include, at all times when the ambulance is in use as such, equipment adequate in the judgment of the parish council or its authorized designee, for dressing wounds, splinting fractures, controlling hemorrhages and providing oxygen, and providing basic life support care.

(b)

No ambulance shall be operated unless it has the following equipment on board:

(1)

Oxygen inhalation equipment—two oxygen supplies, one of which is portable and other installed in the ambulance.

(2)

Suction equipment for the aspiration of secretions—one suction unit which is portable and one suction unit installed in the ambulance.

(3)

Airway-esophagus obturator airway, oral pharyngeal airways, endotracheal airways, laryngoscope and blades, and air adult bag-mask resuscitator.

(4)

Wound dressings.

(5)

Splints for upper and lower extremities, scoop stretcher, long spine board, short spine board (also known as a "Kansas"), Kendrix extricative device (KED) or medical extrication device (MED), head immobilizer and a traction splint.

(6)

Emergency childbirth kit.

(7)

Military antishock trousers (MAST), snake bite kits, disaster bags and intravenous fluids necessary to replace blood loss or as a lifeline for medications.

(8)

Pillows, blankets, sheets, pillow cases, emesis basins, urinals, bedpans, aneroid blood pressure manometer and stethoscopes, cervical collars, sterile foil and burn sheets.

(9)

Two-way radios for direct voice dispatching, routing, notification of emergency departments and direction and assistance from and liaison with fire, police and civil defense authorities and other ambulance units. Regardless of the location of the basic radio equipment, it must be adoptable for use by both the driver and the medical technician in the patient area. Portable radios shall be provided for communication between personnel working at a distance from the vehicle.

(10)

And any other essential equipment for ambulances required by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons and also the state department of health and human resources, department of family security.

(Ord. No. 36-89, § 28:13B, 11-13-89)