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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 30.03.05.02" title_num="30" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="05" heading="Protocol Development.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The EMS Board shall approve and issue the Maryland Medical Protocols for Emergency Medical Services Providers and any protocol revisions or supplemental protocols.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>MIEMSS shall develop the Maryland Medical Protocols for Emergency Medical Services Providers and any protocol revisions or supplemental protocols with the advice of a protocol review committee.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Any individual may recommend a protocol, protocol revision or supplemental protocol to the protocol review committee by forwarding the recommendation to the protocol review committee and the office of the State EMS Medical Director at MIEMSS.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>MIEMSS shall appoint the protocol review committee which shall be composed of:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>One representative from each of the following groups:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The EMS Board;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The State Board of Physicians;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The Statewide Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>The Pediatric Emergency Medical Advisory Committee;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>The Jurisdictional Advisory Committee;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>The Commercial Ambulance Service Advisory Committee;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>The EMS operational program medical directors;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Volunteer EMS BLS Providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>Volunteer EMS ALS Providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(j)">
        <text>Career EMS BLS Providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(k)">
        <text>Career EMS ALS Providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(l)">
        <text>Commercial EMS BLS Providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(m)">
        <text>Commercial EMS ALS Providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(n)">
        <text>The Maryland Chapter of ACEP;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(o)">
        <text>the State Board of Nursing; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(p)">
        <text>Trauma Net; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The regional medical directors.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>The protocol review committee shall review the fiscal impact of any proposed protocol, protocol revision, or supplemental protocol.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>All recommendations for protocols, protocol revisions, or supplemental protocols concerning the practice of medicine shall be presented to the Practice of Medicine Committee of the State Board of Physicians.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>All recommendations for protocols, protocol revisions, or supplemental protocols concerning the practice of nursing shall be presented to the Board of Nursing.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>The Executive Director of MIEMSS shall present all recommendations for protocols, protocol revisions, or supplemental protocols to the EMS Board.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>In an emergency situation in which a delay in the issuance of a protocol, protocol revision, or supplemental protocol would pose a threat to the health and welfare of patients, the Executive Director of MIEMSS, with the concurrence of the Chair of the EMS Board, may issue an immediate emergency protocol or revision which shall be effective pending action by the EMS Board at the next meeting of the EMS Board.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>