§ 11-159. Standards for ambulance equipment.

(a)

The equipment required in each ambulance shall include, at all times when the ambulance is in use as such, equipment adequate in the judgment of the parish coroner or his designee, for dressing wounds, splinting fractures, controlling hemorrhages and providing oxygen, and providing advanced life support care.

(b)

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

(1)

Oxygen inhalation equipment: two oxygen supplies, one of which is portable and the other which is 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 anti-shock 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 department 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.

(10)

Telemetry capability which expands voice transmissions to allow an emergency room physician to monitor and diagnose electrical cardiac status of a patient in the field and to enable an emergency medical technician—paramedic to monitor vital signs of a patient during transport.

(11)

Cardiac monitor and defibrillator capable of producing hard copy EKG records, delivering 300 watt/second electrical defibrillation, and transmitting a patient's EKG electronically to a hospital.

(12)

Advanced life support medications necessary to provide advanced life support care as outlined by current American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support Care Standards.

(Ord. No. 1134, 3-27-91)