{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f300d\u201331.","heading":"Definitions","text":"\u00a7\u202f300d\u201331.\nDefinitions\nFor purposes of this part and parts A and B:\n(1)\nDesignated trauma center\nThe term \u201cdesignated trauma center\u201d means a trauma center designated in accordance with the modifications to the State plan described in\nsection 300d\u201313 of this title\n(2)\nState plan regarding emergency medical services\nThe term \u201cState plan\u201d, with respect to the provision of emergency medical services, means a plan for a comprehensive, organized system to provide for the access, response, triage, field stabilization, transport, hospital stabilization, definitive care, and rehabilitation of patients of all ages with respect to emergency medical services.\n(3)\nState\nThe term \u201cState\u201d means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.\n(4)\nTrauma\nThe term \u201ctrauma\u201d means an injury resulting from exposure to\u2014\n(A) a mechanical force; or\n(B) another extrinsic agent, including an extrinsic agent that is thermal, electrical, chemical, or radioactive.\n(5)\nTrauma care component of State plan\nThe term \u201ctrauma care component\u201d, with respect to components of the State plan for the provision of emergency medical services, means a plan for a comprehensive health care system, within rural and urban areas of the State, for the prompt recognition, prehospital care, emergency medical care, acute surgical and medical care, rehabilitation, and outcome evaluation of seriously injured patients.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s300d\u201331.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f300d\u201331."},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"For purposes of this part and parts A and B:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Designated trauma center"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The term \u201cdesignated trauma center\u201d means a trauma center designated in accordance with the modifications to the State plan described in ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 300d\u201313 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201313","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"heading","text":"State plan regarding emergency medical services"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The term \u201cState plan\u201d, with respect to the provision of emergency medical services, means a plan for a comprehensive, organized system to provide for the access, response, triage, field stabilization, transport, hospital stabilization, definitive care, and rehabilitation of patients of all ages with respect to emergency medical services.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"heading","text":"State"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The term \u201cState\u201d means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Trauma"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"The term \u201ctrauma\u201d means an injury resulting from exposure to\u2014"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331/4/A","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(A)"},{"t":"content","text":" a mechanical force; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331/4/B","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(B)"},{"t":"content","text":" another extrinsic agent, including an extrinsic agent that is thermal, electrical, chemical, or radioactive.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300d\u201331/5","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(5)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Trauma care component of State plan"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The term \u201ctrauma care component\u201d, with respect to components of the State plan for the provision of emergency medical services, means a plan for a comprehensive health care system, within rural and urban areas of the State, for the prompt recognition, prehospital care, emergency medical care, acute surgical and medical care, rehabilitation, and outcome evaluation of seriously injured patients.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}