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Prepared by: Kelly McGraw, Staff Attorney April 8, 2024
2023 Wisconsin Act 176
[2023 Assembly Bill 224]
Ambulance Staffing on Aircraft
Transporting a Pediatric Patient
Between Hospitals
BACKGROUND
State law requires certain combinations of individuals to be present when a sick, disabled, or injured
individual is transported by ambulance. The law specifies multiple options for combinations of
individuals to staff the ambulance. One of the options is available only if the ambulance is a fixed-wing
airplane and the sick, disabled, or injured individual is a pediatric patient who is being transferred from
one hospital to another hospital.
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 176
2023 Wisconsin Act 176 authorizes a certain ambulance staffing combination option for an ambulance
that is an aircraft, rather than a fixed-wing airplane. Specifically, if an ambulance is an aircraft and the
sick, disabled, or injured individual is a pediatric patient who is being transferred from one hospital to
another hospital, then one option for a combination of individuals who must be present in the
ambulance is one emergency medical services practitioner, licensed registered nurse, licensed physician
assistant or physician, plus one certified respiratory care practitioner.
Effective date: March 24, 2024
For a full history of the bill, visit the Legislature’s bill history page.
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