37.104.804    REPORTABLE EXPOSURE

(1) The types of exposures that a designated officer shall report to a health care facility upon the request of an emergency services provider are:

(a) any person to person contact in which a co-mingling of respiratory secretion (saliva and sputum) of the patient and the emergency services provider may have taken place;

(b) transmittal of the blood or bloody body fluids of the patient onto the mucous membranes of the emergency services provider (mouth, nose, eyes) and/or into breaks in the skin of the emergency services provider;

(c) transmittal of other body fluids (semen, vaginal secretion, amniotic fluid, feces, wound drainage, or cerebral spinal fluid) onto the mucous membranes of the emergency services provider;

(d) any non-barrier protected contact of the emergency services provider with the mucous membranes or non-intact skin of the patient.

History: 50-16-705, MCA; IMP, 50-16-701, 50-16-705, MCA; NEW, 1989 MAR p. 2229, Eff. 12/22/89; EMERG, AMD, 1994 MAR p. 1704, Eff. 6/24/94; TRANS, from DHES, 2001 MAR p. 2305.