# COMAR Title 30 — Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS)

## Subtitle 08 — Designation of Trauma and Specialty Referral Centers

### Chapter 09 — Eye Trauma Center Standards

#### Regulation .02 Medical Staff.

*COMAR 30.08.09.02*

The hospital shall have:

A. The following physician coverage:

  (1) An ophthalmology fellow or ophthalmology resident in house 24 hours a day, to be at the bedside within 30 minutes for emergent consultation requests, with a board-certified or board-eligible ophthalmologist on call and available to be at the bedside within 60 minutes for emergent consultation requests; and

  (2) A board-certified or board-eligible emergency medicine physician in house 24 hours a day for eye trauma triage, with a board-certified or board-eligible attending ophthalmologist on call and available be at the bedside within 60 minutes for emergent consultation; and

B. Ophthalmic subspecialty coverage on call and available 24 hours a day for vitreoretinal, oculoplastics, and anterior segment surgery.