Wisconsin Code § 256.01

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In this chapter:
(1k) “Advanced emergency medical technician” means an
emergency medical services practitioner who has completed intermediate technician training.
(1t) “Ambulance” means an emergency vehicle, including
any motor vehicle, boat or aircraft, whether privately or publicly
owned, which is designed, constructed or equipped to transport
sick, disabled or injured individuals.
(2) “Ambulance service” means the business of transporting
sick, disabled, or injured individuals by ambulance to or from facilities or institutions providing health services.
(3) “Ambulance service provider” means a person engaged
primarily in the business of transporting sick, disabled, or injured
individuals by ambulance to or from facilities or institutions providing health services.
(4) “Board” means the emergency medical services board.
(4p) “Emergency medical responder” means a person who is
certified by the department as an emergency medical responder
under s. 256.15 (8) (a) or is exempt under s. 256.15 (2) (b) or (c)
and who, as a condition of employment or as a member of an organization that provides emergency medical care before hospitalization, provides emergency medical care to a sick, disabled, or
injured individual.
(5) “Emergency medical services practitioner” means an
emergency medical technician, an advanced emergency medical
technician, an emergency medical technician — intermediate, or
a paramedic.
(6) “Emergency medical technician” means an individual
who is licensed by the department to administer basic life support
and to properly handle and transport sick, disabled, or injured individuals or is exempt under s. 256.15 (2) (b) or (c).
(7) “Emergency medical technician — intermediate” means
an individual who is licensed by the department as an emergency
medical technician — intermediate under s. 256.15 (5) or is exempt under s. 256.15 (2) (b) or (c).
(10) “Hospital” has the meaning given in s. 50.33 (2).
(11) “Medical director” means a physician who trains, medically coordinates, directs, supervises, establishes standard operating procedures for, and designates physicians for direction and supervision of, emergency medical services practitioners and who
reviews the performance of emergency medical services practitioners and ambulance service providers.
(12) “Nonprofit corporation” means a nonstock corporation
organized under ch. 181 that is a nonprofit corporation, as defined in s. 181.0103 (17).
(13) “Opioid antagonist” has the meaning given in s. 450.01
(13v).
(14) “Paramedic” means an individual who is specially
trained in emergency cardiac, trauma, and other lifesaving or
emergency procedures in a training program or course of instruction prescribed by the department and who is examined and licensed as a paramedic under s. 256.15 (5) or is exempt under s.
256.15 (2) (b) or (c).

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