§300d–31 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Gives simple meanings for words used in these rules about emergency medical and trauma care. Designated trauma center — a trauma hospital that the state has officially named under its updated plan. State plan — the statewide system for emergency medical care that covers getting help, responding, triage, on-scene stabilization, transport, hospital care, final treatment, and rehab for patients of all ages. State — each U.S. State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Trauma — an injury from a physical force or from an outside agent like heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation. Trauma care component — the part of the State plan that sets up a full health care system, in both rural and urban areas, for quickly finding, treating, operating on, rehabilitating, and checking results for seriously injured people.

Title 42, §300d–31

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For purposes of this part and parts A and B:

(1)The term “designated trauma center” means a trauma center designated in accordance with the modifications to the State plan described in section 300d–13 of this title.

(2)The term “State plan”, with respect to the provision of emergency medical services, means a plan for a comprehensive, organized system to provide for the access, response, triage, field stabilization, transport, hospital stabilization, definitive care, and rehabilitation of patients of all ages with respect to emergency medical services.

(3)The term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

(4)The term “trauma” means an injury resulting from exposure to—

(A)a mechanical force; or

(B)another extrinsic agent, including an extrinsic agent that is thermal, electrical, chemical, or radioactive.

(5)The term “trauma care component”, with respect to components of the State plan for the provision of emergency medical services, means a plan for a comprehensive health care system, within rural and urban areas of the State, for the prompt recognition, prehospital care, emergency medical care, acute surgical and medical care, rehabilitation, and outcome evaluation of seriously injured patients.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Par. (4). Pub. L. 113–152 amended par. (4) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The term ‘trauma’ means an injury resulting from exposure to a mechanical force.” 1993—Par. (3). Pub. L. 103–183 substituted “Puerto Rico,” for “Puerto Rico;”. 1992—Pub. L. 102–321 substituted “this part and parts A and B” for “this subchapter” in introductory provisions.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1992 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 102–321 effective July 10, 1992, with provision for programs providing financial assistance, see section 801(b), (d) of Pub. L. 102–321, set out as a note under section 236 of this title.

§300d–31 Definitions