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Advocate urges Connecticut to change EMS rules or pass law to let paramedics give life‑saving patient‑carried injectables
Summary
A long‑time advocate urged the council to support EMS scope‑of‑practice changes or legislation to allow paramedics to administer patient‑carried, time‑critical injectables with liability protections and targeted education funding, citing a Missouri law and a fatal California case.
An advocate who founded a nonprofit to improve emergency care for people with rare and chronic conditions urged the Rare Disease Advisory Council to support regulatory or legislative changes that would allow paramedics to administer patient‑carried, time‑critical injectable medications and receive liability protection.
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