Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 156

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 361

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, TITLE 24, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF DEATH FACILITATED BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN-PARAMEDIC (EMT-P).

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend §1760, Subchapter VI, Chapter 17, Title 24, Delaware Code, by redesignating subparagraphs (b) and (c) to read (c) and (d) and substituting a new subparagraph (b) to read as follows:

"(b) the determination of death pursuant to the provisions herein may be made, by a physician admitted to practice under this Chapter, by either (1) personal examination, or (2) by the use of information provided by an EMT-P (paramedic) using telemetric or transtelephonic means in accordance with protocols approved by the Board of Medical Practice, following recommendations of its Advanced Life Support Committee."

Approved January 25, 1990.