<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 34-12-52 - Definition of terms related to trauma care system.</title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML"><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0Normal { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0Statute { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; 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or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0StatuteNumber2"><span class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0DefaultParagraphFont">(c)    Disturbance of behavioral or emotional functioning;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0StatuteNumber1"><span class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    "Trauma care system," a statewide system for the prevention of trauma and the provision of optimal medical care to trauma victims that includes both the provision of appropriate health care services and provision of emergency medical care, equipment, and personnel for effective and coordinated prehospital, hospital, inter-hospital, and rehabilitative care for trauma patients;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0StatuteNumber1"><span class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    "Trauma hospital," a hospital designated by the department as providing a specialized program in trauma care with appropriately trained personnel, equipment, and other facility resources that are specifically organized to provide optimal care to a trauma patient at the facility; and</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0StatuteNumber1"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    "Trauma registry," patient-specific trauma data that is maintained by a health care facility, in a format prescribed by rules promulgated pursuant to § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=34-12-54" rel="noopener"><span class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0DefaultParagraphFont">34-12-54</span></a><span class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0DefaultParagraphFont">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0000000"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0NoIndent"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0DefaultParagraphFont-000001">Source: </span><span class="s917d7b91aa174f1f8345b6f5ede7fef0SCL">SL 2008, ch 168, § 1; SL 2017, ch 150, § 3; SL 2022, ch 103, § 3.</span></p></div></body></html>