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37.104.312    SAFETY: AIR AMBULANCE

(1) Each stretcher support must have, as a minimum, FAA-approved provisions for securing a 95th percentile adult American male patient, consisting of individual restraints across the chest and legs, and, with the exception of rotor wing ambulances, a shoulder harness that meets FAA technical service order standards.

(2) In rotor wing ambulances, high pressure containers and lines for medical gases may not be positioned in the scatter zone of the engine turbine wheels, unless adequate protection is provided to prevent penetration by turbine blade and wheel parts.

(3) Survival gear applicable to the needs of the area of operation and the number of occupants must be carried on board and appropriately maintained.

(4) Any modifications to the interior of an aircraft to accommodate medical equipment must have FAA approval and be maintained to FAA standards.

(5) No one may smoke in an air ambulance.

(6) An emergency medical service must take measures to assure that the carbon monoxide level does not exceed ten parts per million accumulation at the head of the patient stretcher or in the pilot's compartment, including the following:

(a) continuously maintaining, in the patient compartment and in the pilot's compartment, disposable or electronic carbon monoxide detectors, approved by the department, which are capable of immediately detecting a dangerous rise in the carbon monoxide level;

(b) writing on each of the disposable detectors the date of its placement, and replacing it prior to the expiration date;

(c) keeping replaced disposable detectors for a period of three years after the date of their replacement.

History: 50-6-323, MCA; IMP, 50-6-323, MCA; NEW, 1989 MAR p. 2212, Eff. 1/1/90; TRANS, from DHES, 2001 MAR p. 2305; AMD, 2005 MAR p. 2681, Eff. 12/23/05.

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