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Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.32.010 AS 47.32.030 7 AAC 12.485. Emergency services. (a) A frontier extended stay clinic must provide emergency services necessary to meet the needs of its extended stay patients and outpatients. (b) Emergency services must be available 24 hours a day. (c) Equipment, supplies, drugs, chemicals, and biologicals used in treating emergency cases must be kept at the clinic and must be readily available. The items available must include, at a minimum,

(1) drugs, chemicals, and biologicals commonly used in life-saving procedures, including analgesics, local anesthetics, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, antidotes and emetics, serums and toxoids, antiarrythmics, cardiac glycosides, antihypertensives, diuretics, and electrolytes and replacement solutions; and

(2) equipment and supplies commonly used in life-saving procedures, including

(A) airways;

(B) endotracheal tubes;

(C) bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitators;

(D) oxygen;

(E) tourniquets;

(F) immobilization devices;

(G) nasogastric tubes;

(H) splints;

(I) intravenous (IV) therapy supplies, including D5 normal, D5 quarter normal, and normal saline solutions or lactated ringers solutions;

(J) central line venous access kits or their equivalent;

(K) a suction machine;