ASTM F1229-00

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Designation: F 1229 – 00
Standard Guide for
Establishing the Qualifications, Education, and Training of
EMS, Air-Medical Patient Care Providers
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F 1229; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This guide describes the minimal qualifications, education, and training of five, definitive,
air-medical providers. These guidelines are built on a foundation of recognized courses that are used
to credential patient care providers; emergency medical technicians, nurses, and physicians. The
members of the task group are experienced air-medical providers and users with broad and distinctive
EMS backgrounds.
1. Scope logical conditions, diseases, and disturbances that arise from
flying.
1.1 This guide applies only to personnel involved in the
3.1.2 air-medical—the practice of air-medicine.
provision of emergency medical air transport, and does not
3.1.3 air-medical crew member(s) (ACM)—patient care
necessarily address the qualifications, education, and training
providers on-board medical flights. Identified by the prefix
of specialty care responders or other allied health profession-
flight before their credentialed title (that is, flight nurse).
als.
3.1.4 air-medical director—a physician who is licensed or
1.2 This guide establishes air-medical nomenclature.
otherwise legally authorized to practice and who functions
1.3 This guide establishes minimal qualifications, education,
within an air-medical operation as the individual ultimately
and training requirements for the air-medical crew member(s)
responsible for the quality of patient care.
and the air-medical director.
3.1.5 air-medical operations—that aspect of air-medicine
1.4 This guide identifies the general content of the curricula
involving policies, procedures, and protocols.
for air-medical education and training.
3.1.6 air-medical patient care providers—air-medical crew
1.5 It is expected that a standard guide for education and
members and air-medical directors.
training curricula, certification, and air-medical operations will
3.1.7 air-medicine—a discipline of medicine associated
be developed.
with the care and management of patients transported by
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the
aircraft.
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
3.1.8 care—patient care.
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
3.1.9 educational experience—the accumulation of knowl-
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
edge and skills through education, training, and clinical prac-
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
tice.
2. Referenced Documents
3.1.10 emergency medical air transport—the transport of
EMS patients by air.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
3.1.11 mission—the specific patient care task and responsi-
F 1031 Practice for Training the Emergency Medical Tech-
bility that an EMS provider has accepted.
nician (Basic)
3.1.12 qualification—possessing a recognized definable
3. Terminology
body of knowledge or specific credential (certificate, license,
registration, or degree).
3.1 Descriptions of Terms:
3.1.13 specialty-care responder—emergency air-medical
3.1.1 aeromedicine—the branch of medicine that deals with
responders whose mission is clearly defined and exclusively
the physiological, psychological, pathological, and epidemio-
dedicated to the care of patients with specific illness or injuries.
3.1.14 training—supervised acquisition of specific skill or
This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F30 on Emergency
judgment, or both.
Medical Services and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F30.02 on
Personnel, Training and Education.
4. Significance and Use
Current edition approved Oct. 10, 2000. Published December 2000. Originally
published as F 1229 - 89. Last previous edition F 1229 - 89 (1998).
4.1 This guide provides minimal criteria for development of
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air-medical education and training programs. care mission, additional education and training is at the
4.2 This guide aids in the selection of education and training discretion of the air-medical director.
programs that will correspond to the level of the defined patient
7. Flight EMT-P (Flight Paramedic)—Qualifications,
care mission.
Education, and Training
4.3 It is recognized that the body of knowledge encom-
passed by an education and training program, not the degree, 7.1 The minimum entry level for a flight EMT-paramedic
certificate, or license, is crucial, although documentation of
shall be the body of knowledge and skills identified by both the
such training may be difficult without said credentials. required and optional objectives contained in the EMT-
4.4 This guide pertains to education, training, and curricula
Paramedic DOT National Standard Curriculum. The flight
development and is not intended to be used operationally
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