44:05:08:01.  Quality assurance program standards. In addition to the chart review requirement in SDCL 34-11-11, each ambulance service that provides advanced life support, as defined in SDCL 36-4B-1, shall have the following written quality assurance standards in place that conform with industry safety and scope of practice standards:

    (1)  Personnel and patient safety;

    (2)  Use of lights and sirens during patient transport;

    (3)  Compliance with basic life support or medical or program director approved advanced life support patient care guidelines;

    (4)  Twelve lead electrocardiogram placement and transmission for patients with suspected cardiac chest pain;

    (5)  Blood glucose check for a patient with a suspected stroke;

    (6)  Documentation of at least one set of vitals on every patient transport;

    (7)  Review of all sentinel, or patient safety, events not primarily related to the natural course of a patient’s illness or underlying condition, that reaches a patient and results in death, severe or permanent harm;

    (8)  Compliance with trauma, ST-elevation myocardial infarction, and stroke alert activations; and

    (9)  Medical or program director review and feedback for all:

        (a)  Cardiac arrest resuscitations;

        (b)  Patients who received rapid sequence intubation;

        (c)  Rescue airway placements after a failed intubation; and

        (d)  Pediatric patients with life threatening emergencies.

    Source: 51 SDR 36, effective September 30, 2024.

    General Authority: SDCL 34-11-5.

    Law Implemented: SDCL 34-11-11(8).