Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 125.03 - Definitions

In this section:

(1) "Ambulance run report form" means the form that the ambulance service provider under s. DHS 110.34(7) and (8) requires emergency medical technicians to complete at the end of each ambulance run.

Note: An ambulance run report is also known as a patient care report.

(2) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services.

(3) "Do-not-resuscitate bracelet" means a standardized identification bracelet of uniform size, color and design approved by the department, that bears the inscription "Do Not Resuscitate" which signifies that the wearer is a qualified patient, as defined in s. 154.17(4), Stats., who has requested and obtained a do-not-resuscitate order and has not revoked the request for the order.

(4) "Do-not resuscitate order" means a written order issued by a physician under the requirements of subch. III of ch. 154, Stats., that directs emergency health care personnel not to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a person for whom the order is issued if that person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest.

(5) "Emergency health care facility staff" means staff of a hospital emergency room or an urgent care clinic whose duties are to render emergency medical care to sick, disabled or injured persons conveyed to the facility.

(5m) "Emergency health care personnel" means emergency medical services practitioners, emergency medical responders, and emergency health care facility staff.

(5p) "Emergency medical responder" has the meaning given in s. 256.01(4p), Stats.

(5r) "Emergency medical services practitioner" has the meaning given in s. 256.01(5), Stats.

(8) "Patient" means a person who is brought for treatment to an emergency medical facility or a person to whom emergency health care personnel go to render treatment.

(9) "Qualified patient" has the meaning specified in s. 154.17(4), Stats.

Notes

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 125.03

Cr. Register, July, 1997, No. 499, eff. 8-1-97; corrections in (1), (6) and (7) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register July 2001, No. 547; corrections in (1), (2), (6) and (7) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 6 and 7., Stats., Register January 2009 No. 637; corrections in (1), (6), (7) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register July 2011 No. 667. Amended by, CR 20-067: am. (5m), cr. (5g), (5r), r. (6), (7) Register December 2021 No. 792, eff. 1-1-22; renum. (5g) to (5p) under s. 13.92(4) (b) 1, Stats., Register November 2021 No. 792, eff. 1/1/2022