This text of New Mexico § 22-33-2 (Definitions) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Mexico primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
As used in the Emergency Medication in Schools Act: A. "albuterol" includes albuterol or another inhaled bronchodilator, as recommended by the department of health, for the treatment of respiratory distress; B. "albuterol aerosol canister" means a portable drug delivery device packaged with multiple premeasured doses of albuterol; C. "anaphylaxis" or "anaphylactic reaction" means a sudden, severe and potentially life-threatening whole-body allergic reaction; D. "automated external defibrillator" means a medical device heart monitor and defibrillator that:
(1)has received approval of its premarket modification filed pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 360(k), from the United States food and drug administration; (2)is capable of recognizing cardiac arrest that will respond to defibrillation, ventricular
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As used in the Emergency Medication in Schools Act: A. "albuterol" includes albuterol or another inhaled bronchodilator, as recommended by the department of health, for the treatment of respiratory distress; B. "albuterol aerosol canister" means a portable drug delivery device packaged with multiple premeasured doses of albuterol; C. "anaphylaxis" or "anaphylactic reaction" means a sudden, severe and potentially life-threatening whole-body allergic reaction; D. "automated external defibrillator" means a medical device heart monitor and defibrillator that: (1) has received approval of its premarket modification filed pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 360(k), from the United States food and drug administration; (2) is capable of recognizing cardiac arrest that will respond to defibrillation, ventricular fibrillation or rapid ventricular tachycardia and is capable of determining whether defibrillation should be performed; and (3) upon determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and is capable of delivering an electrical impulse to an individual's heart; E. "emergency medication" means albuterol or epinephrine; F. "epinephrine" includes epinephrine or another medication, as recommended by the department of health, used to treat anaphylaxis until the immediate arrival of emergency medical system responders; G. "epinephrine auto-injector" means a portable, disposable drug delivery device that contains a premeasured single dose of epinephrine; H. "governing body" includes a governing body of a private school; I. "health care practitioner" means a person authorized by the state to prescribe emergency medication; J. "respiratory distress" includes impaired oxygenation of the blood or impaired ventilation of the respiratory system; K. "school" means a public school, charter school or private school; L. "spacer" means a holding chamber that is used to optimize the delivery of albuterol to a person's lungs; M. "stock supply" means an appropriate quantity of emergency medication, as recommended by the department of health; and N. "trained personnel" means a school employee, agent or volunteer who has completed epinephrine administration training documented by the school nurse, school principal or school leader and approved by the department of health and who has been designated by the school principal or school leader to administer epinephrine on a voluntary basis outside of the scope of employment.