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F.S. 125.01045 | Prohibition of fees for first responder services.
A county may not impose a fee or seek reimbursement for any costs or expenses that may be incurred for services provided by a first responder, including costs or expenses related to personnel, supplies, motor vehicles, or equipment in response to a motor vehicle accident, except for costs to contain or clean up hazardous materials in quantities reportable to the Florida State Warning Point at the Division of Emergency Management, and costs for transportation and treatment provided by ambulance services licensed pursuant to s. 401.23 (4) and (5).
F.S. 316.072 | Obedience to and effect of traffic laws.
Includes obedience to Police, Fire and EMS vehicles, includes authorized emergency vehicles.
F.S. 316.0271 | Yellow DOT critical motorist medical information program; yellow dot decal, folder, and information form.
The governing body of a county may create a yellow dot critical motorist medical information program to facilitate the provision of emergency medical care to program participants by emergency medical responders by making critical medical information readily available to responders in the event of a motor vehicle accident or a medical emergency involving a participant’s vehicle.
F.S. 316.305 | Wireless communications devices; prohibition.
This section may be cited as the "Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law."
F.S. 316.1933 | Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force.
Only a physician, certified paramedic, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, other personnel authorized by a hospital to draw blood, or duly licensed clinical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, or technician, acting at the request of a law enforcement officer, may withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content thereof or the presence of chemical substances or controlled substances therein. However, the failure of a law enforcement officer to request the withdrawal of blood shall not affect the admissibility of a test of blood withdrawn for medical purposes.
F.S. 327.353 | Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force.
Only a physician, certified paramedic, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, other personnel authorized by a hospital to draw blood, or duly licensed clinical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, or technician, acting at the request of a law enforcement officer, may withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content thereof or the presence of chemical substances or controlled substances therein. However, the failure of a law enforcement officer to request the withdrawal of blood shall not affect the admissibility of a test of blood withdrawn for medical purposes.
F.S. 365.171 | Emergency communications state plan.
It is the intent of the Legislature that the communications number "911" be the designated emergency communications number. A public safety agency may not advertise or otherwise promote the use of any communications number for emergency response services other than "911." It is further the intent of the Legislature to implement and continually update a cohesive statewide emergency communications number "E911" plan for enhanced 911 services which will provide citizens with rapid direct access to public safety agencies by accessing "911" with the objective of reducing the response time to situations requiring law enforcement, fire, medical, rescue, and other emergency services.
F.S. 365.171(12)(b) | AED contact by public safety telecommunicator.
Notwithstanding paragraph (a), a 911 public safety telecommunicator, as defined in s. 401.465 , may contact any private person or entity that owns an automated external defibrillator who has notified the local emergency medical services medical director or public safety answering point of such ownership if a confirmed coronary emergency call is taking place and the location of the coronary emergency is within a reasonable distance from the location of the defibrillator, and may provide the location of the coronary emergency to that person or entity.
F.S. 395.1031 | Emergency medical services; communication.
Each licensed hospital with an emergency department must be capable of communicating by two-way radio with all ground-based basic life support service vehicles and advanced life support service vehicles that operate within the hospital’s service area under a state permit and with all rotorcraft air ambulances that operate under a state permit.
F.S. 381.88 | Emergency allergy treatment.
The purpose of this section is to provide for the certification of persons who administer lifesaving treatment to persons who have severe allergic reactions when a physician is not immediately available.
F.S. 381.00315 | Public health advisories; public health emergencies; isolation and quarantines.
Notwithstanding s. 456.036 , temporarily reactivating the inactive license of the following health care practitioners, when such practitioners are needed to respond to the public health emergency.
F.S. 381.887 | Emergency treatment for suspected opioid overdose.
The purpose of this section is to provide for the prescription of an emergency opioid antagonist to patients and caregivers and to encourage the prescription of emergency opioid antagonists by authorized health care practitioners.
F.S. 383.50 | Treatment of surrendered newborn infant.
Each emergency medical services station or fire station staffed with full-time firefighters, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics shall accept any newborn infant left with a firefighter, emergency medical technician, or paramedic.
F.S. 383.51 | Confidentiality; identification of parent leaving newborn infant at hospital, emergency medical services station, or fire station.
The identity of a parent who leaves a newborn infant at a hospital, emergency medical services station, or fire station in accordance with s. 383.50 is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07 (1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
F.S. 383.3362 | Sudden Unexpected Infant Death.
The Legislature further recognizes that first responders to emergency calls relating to such a death need access to special training to better enable them to recognize that such deaths may result from natural and accidental causes or may be caused by criminal acts and to appropriately interact with the deceased infant’s parents or caretakers.
F.S. 743.064 | Emergency medical care or treatment to minors without parental consent.
The absence of parental consent notwithstanding, a physician licensed under chapter 458 or an osteopathic physician licensed under chapter 459 may render emergency medical care or treatment to any minor who has been injured in an accident or who is suffering from an acute illness, disease, or condition if, within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, delay in initiation or provision of emergency medical care or treatment would endanger the health or physical well-being of the minor, and provided such emergency medical care or treatment is administered in a hospital licensed by the state under chapter 395 or in a college health service. Emergency medical care or treatment may also be rendered in the prehospital setting by paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and other emergency medical services personnel, provided such care is rendered consistent with the provisions of chapter 401.