Section 22-B2899. DEFINITIONS

 

2899.1For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning described:

 

Audit Filters - clinical indicators used to examine the process of care and to identify potential patient-care problems.

 

Burn Service - the patient care team based in a hospital, and designed to treat patients with diverse degrees of burns.

 

Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgical Critical Care - recognition of specialized education in surgical critical care by the American Board of Surgery.

 

Emergency Medical System EMS - the arrangement of personnel, facilities, and equipment for the effective and coordinated delivery of emergency care required to prevent and manage incidents that occur from a medical emergency or from an accident, natural disaster, or similar situation.

 

Glasgow Coma Scale - scoring system that defines eye, motor and verbal responses in the patient with injury to the brain.

 

Immediately available - implies the physical presence of the health professional in a stated location at the time of need by the trauma patient.

 

Injury - the result of an act that damages, harms, or hurts; unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to mechanical, thermal, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen.

 

Injury Severity Score - the sum of the squares of the Abbreviated Injury Scale Scores of the three most severely injured body regions.

 

Prehospital provider - individual who is trained to provide emergency medical services and is certified as such by the local authorities in accordance with the current national standard. Includes First Responders, Emergency Medical Technician/Basic (EMT/B) and advanced life support providers (EMT/Paramedies).

 

Promptly available - implies the physical presence of the health professional in a stated location within a short period of time, with the time period for actual appearance to be determined by the Trauma Service Director, and continuously monitored by the performance improvement program.

 

Revised Trauma Score - a prehospital/emergency center scoring system in which numerical values are assigned to differing levels of Glasgow Coma Scale, systolic blood pressure, and respiratory rate.

 

Trauma patient - a patient suffering injuries as a result of physical trauma.

 

Trauma Registry - database to provide information for analysis and evaluation of the quality of patient care, including epidemiological and demographic characteristics of trauma patients.

 

Trauma Score/Injury Severity Score or TRISS - the likelihood of patient survival based on a regression equation that includes patient age, injury severity score, revised trauma score, and the type of injury (blunt or penetrating).

 

source

Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 46 DCR 8779 (October 29, 1999); as amended by Notice of Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking published at 51 DCR 3933 (April 16, 2004) [EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 51 DCR 7277 (July 23, 2004).