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<chapter num="01" heading="Definitions" title_num="30" subtitle_num="06">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Definitions.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Terms Defined.</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>“Automated external defibrillator (AED)” means a medical heart monitor and defibrillator device that:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Is cleared for market by the federal Food and Drug Administration;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Recognizes the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation or rapid ventricular tachycardia;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Determines, without intervention by the operator, whether defibrillation should be performed;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>On determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Either:</text>
          <paragraph num="(i)">
            <text>Requires operator intervention to deliver the electrical impulse, or</text>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph num="(ii)">
            <text>Automatically continues with delivery of electrical impulse.</text>
          </paragraph>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>“Event (code) summary” means the electronic report of an AED operation produced by an AED.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>“Expected operator” means any individual identified by a registered facility to operate an AED at a registered facility</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>“Facility” means an agency, association, corporation, firm, partnership, or other entity.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>“Operate” means to use or attempt to use an AED to defibrillate an individual whether or not any electrical impulse is delivered.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>“Public safety answering point (PSAP)” has the meaning stated in Public Safety Article, §1-301(q), Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Registered Facility.</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>“Registered facility” means an organization, business, association, or agency that meets the requirements of the EMS Board for providing automated external defibrillation.</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>“Registered facility” may include multiple sites.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>“Response” means the removal of the AED from its storage location for the purposes of rendering care whether or not the care is actually rendered.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>“Site” means a building, plant, unit, branch, vehicle, or other ancillary location that is part of or affiliated with a facility.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Education Article, §13-517, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date:</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 adopted as an emergency provision effective January 1, 2000 (27:2 Md. R. 142); adopted permanently effective April 17, 2000 (27:7 Md. R. 707)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01B amended effective June 5, 2006 (33:11 Md. R. 952); May 4, 2009 (36:9 Md. R. 654); January 7, 2013 (39:26 Md. R. 1666)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>