Sec. 2. (a) This section applies to the following:
(1) An emergency medical services provider who is exposed to blood and body fluids while providing emergency medical services to a patient.
(2) A law enforcement officer who is exposed to blood and body fluids while performing the law enforcement officer's official duties.
(3) A health care provider who is exposed to blood and body fluids while providing medical care to a patient.
(b) An emergency medical services provider, a health care provider, or a law enforcement officer may request notification concerning exposure to a serious communicable disease under this chapter if the exposure is of a type that has been demonstrated epidemiologically to transmit a serious communicable disease.
(c) If an emergency medical services provider, a health care provider, or a law enforcement officer desires to be notified of results of testing following a possible exposure to a serious communicable disease under this chapter, the emergency medical services provider, health care provider, or law enforcement officer shall notify the emergency medical services provider's, health care provider's, or law enforcement officer's employer not more than twenty-four (24) hours after the emergency medical services provider, health care provider, or law enforcement officer is exposed on a form that is prescribed by the state department and the Indiana emergency medical services commission.
(d) The emergency medical services provider, health care provider, or law enforcement officer shall distribute a copy of the completed form required under subsection (c) to the following:
(1) If applicable, the medical director of the emergency department of the medical facility:
(A) to which the patient was admitted following the exposure; or
(B) in which the patient was located at the time of the exposure.
(2) The emergency medical services provider's, health care provider's, or law enforcement officer's employer.
(3) The state department.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-45-5.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.186-1995, SEC.16; P.L.212-2003, SEC.6; P.L.131-2018, SEC.1; P.L.112-2020, SEC.43.