Ohio Admin. Code § 3701-3-022 AIR- AND BLOOD-BORNE
DISEASES REASONABLY LIKELY TO BE TRANSMITTED TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SERVICES WORKERS
(A) Section 3701.248 of the Revised Code allows an emergency medical
services worker to ask a health care facility or coroner to notify them
of the results of tests for certain diseases, if the worker believes
that he or she had a significant exposure through contact with a
patient. The diseases subject to this procedure are contagious or
infectious diseases that the public health council, by rule, has
specified as reasonably likely to be transmitted by air or blood during
the normal course of an emergency medical services worker's duties. The
diseases listed in paragraph (B) of this rule are specified for purposes
of section 3701.248 of the Revised Code.
(B) The following diseases are specified as reasonably likely to be
transmitted by air or blood during the normal course of an emergency
medical worker's duties:
(1) Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever;
(2) Diphtheria;
(3) Ebola-marburg virus infection;
(4) Fifth disease (human parvovirus infection);
(5) Hansen's disease (leprosy);
(6) Acute or chronic infection with hepatitis B virus;
(7) Acute or chronic infection with hepatitis C virus;
(8) Infection with delta hepatitis virus;
(9) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, including acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related illnesses;
(10) Infection with human t-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2);
(11) Lassa fever;
(12) Leishmaniasis, visceral (Kala-Azar);
(13) Leptospirosis;
(14) Listeriosis pneumonia;
(15) Measles (rubeola);
(16) Meningococcal infection (neisseria meningitidis);
(17) Mumps (infectious parotitis);
(18) Pertussis (whooping cough);
(19) Pneumonic plague (yersinia pestis);
(20) Rabies;
(21) Rubella (German measles);
(22) Tuberculosis; and
(23) Varicella (herpes zoster) infection, including chicken-pox,
disseminated varicella, varicella pneumonia, and shingles.
CREDIT(S)
HISTORY: 1997-98 OMR 3340 (RRD); 1991-92 OMR 1304 (E), eff. 3-8-92
RC 119.032 rule review date(s): 9-1-03
<General Materials (GM) - References, Annotations, or Tables>
CROSS REFERENCES
RC 3701.248, Emergency medical services worker access to information
on
exposure to contagious or infectious disease
LIBRARY REFERENCES
OJur 3d: 53, Health and Sanitation § 49
Koch, Administrative Law and Practice, Processes for information
services-- required reports, Text 2.42
