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(B) obtaining vital signs;

(C) providing treatment;

(61) “pediatric transport provider” means a health care worker who is trained and equipped to provide care to children during transport;

(62) “pediatric transport team” means a team of two or more health care workers who are trained and equipped to provide care to children during transport;

(63) “pre-arrival instructions” means telephone rendered, medically approved, written instructions given by trained EMD’s through callers that help to provide aid to the victim and control of the situation before the arrival of prehospital EMS personnel; “pre-arrival instructions” are part of an instruction given by a certified emergency medical dispatcher and are used as close to word-for-word as possible;

(64) “primary instructor” means an EMS instructor, EMS instructor coordinator, ETT instructor, or paramedic course coordinator who

(A) requested course approval under this chapter; or

(B) coordinated a training program approved by the department under this chapter, or taught more hours in that program than any other instructor;

(65) “protocols” mean written clinical standards for EMS practice in a variety of situations within the EMS system;

(66) “reasonable period of time” means that period of time in which the medical attendant with the patient, or the supervising physician, feels that the patient’s condition will not deteriorate significantly;

(67) “refresher course” means a course, of at least 24 hours in length, that includes cognitive and psychomotor skills appropriate for an EMT-I, EMT-II, EMT-III, AEMT, or paramedic;

(68) “regional trauma center” means a health care facility that is designated by the department as having met the essential standards for area trauma hospitals as specified in the Committee on Trauma Level II Trauma Center Designation Criteria, located in the American College of Surgeons’ Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient, adopted by reference in 7 AAC 26.740;

(69) “Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient” means a publication of the Committee on Trauma, American College of Surgeons, and is adopted by reference in 7 AAC 26.740;

(70) “responsible official” means a person who has administrative responsibility for the operations of an emergency medical service, and includes the chief of a fire department or ambulance service;