N.J.S. § 26:2K-71 Definitions Relative to Mobile Intensive Care Paramedics

• Library: New Jersey Permanent Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through L. 2023, c. 194.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.J.S. § 26:2K-71

a. As used in this section:

"Mobile intensive care paramedic" and "mobile intensive care unit" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 1 of P.L. 1984, c.146 (C.26:2K-7).

"Opioid antidote" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 1 of P.L. 2017, c. 116(C.26:2K-66).

b. Subject to the requirements of federal law, a mobile intensive care paramedic in this State who has responded to an emergency as a member of a dispatched mobile intensive care unit may administer buprenorphine, under the medical direction of a licensed, supervising physician, to an individual following the emergency administration of an opioid antidote to that individual provided that the mobile intensive care paramedic administering the buprenorphine: