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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 11. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES · Article 3. PERSONNEL

31-11-54. Services which may be rendered by paramedics and paramedic trainees.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. (a)

    Upon certification by the department, paramedics may perform any service that a cardiac technician is permitted to perform. In addition, upon the order of a duly licensed physician and subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 31-11-55, paramedics may perform any other procedures which they have been both trained and certified to perform, including, but not limited to:#

    1. (1)

      Administration of parenteral injections of diuretics, anticonvulsants, hypertonic glucose, antihistamines, bronchodilators, emetics, narcotic antagonists, and others, and administration of opioid antagonists;#

    2. (2)

      Cardioversion; and#

    3. (3)

      Endotracheal suction.#

  2. (b)

    While in training preparatory to becoming certified, paramedic trainees may perform any of the functions specified in this Code section under the direct supervision of a duly licensed physician, a registered nurse, or an approved paramedic clinical preceptor.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 88-3112.5, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 281, § 6; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1923, § 4; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1782, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1145, § 4; Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 2-4/HB 965.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 2-1/HB 965, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “WHEREAS, Naloxone is an opioid antagonist developed to counter the effects of opiate overdose, specifically the life threatening depression of the central nervous and respiratory systems; and “WHEREAS, Naloxone is clinically administered via intramuscular, intravenous, or subcutaneous injection; and “WHEREAS, Naloxone is administered outside of a clinical setting or facility intranasally via nasal atomizer; and “WHEREAS, the American Medical Association supported the lay administration of this life saving drug in 2012; and “WHEREAS, similar Naloxone access laws have reversed more than 10,000 opioid overdoses by lay people in other states; and “WHEREAS, the American Medical Association acknowledged that ‘fatalities caused by opioid overdose can devastate families and communities, and we must do more to prevent these unnecessary deaths’; and “WHEREAS, the National Institutes of Health found that Naloxone ‘lacks any psychoactive or addictive qualities . . . without any potential for abuse . . . [and] medical side effects or other problematic unintended consequences associated with Naloxone have not been reported’; and “WHEREAS, any administration of Naloxone to an individual experiencing an opioid overdose must be followed by professional medical attention and treatment.” Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 3-1/HB 965, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that Parts I and II of this Act shall apply to all acts committed on or after April 24, 2014.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 716; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.