(a) “Advanced life support” means a sophisticated level of prehospital and interhospital emergency care which includes basic life-support functions including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), plus cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation, telemetered electrocardiography, administration of antiarrhythmic agents, intravenous therapy, administration of specific medications, drugs and solutions, use of adjunctive ventilation devices, trauma care and other authorized techniques and procedures.

(b) “Advanced life-support personnel” means persons other than physicians engaged in the provision of advanced life support, as defined and regulated by rules and regulations promulgated by the board.

(c) “Emergency medical technician-advanced” means a person specially trained in an advanced life-support training program authorized by the Mississippi State Board of Health.

(d) “Emergency medical technician-paramedic” means a person specially trained in an advanced life-support training program authorized by the Mississippi State Board of Health.

(e) “Emergency medical technician-paramedic critical care” means a person who (i) is licensed as a Mississippi Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic, and (ii) has successfully completed a critical care paramedic program recognized by the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and the Mississippi State Department of Health.

(f) “Medical control” means directions and advice provided from a centrally designated medical facility staffed by appropriate personnel, operating under medical supervision, supplying professional support through radio or telephonic communication for on-site and in-transit basic and advanced life-support services given by field and satellite facility personnel.