86 STAT. ]
PUBLIC LAW 92-423-SEPT. 19, 1972
681
"(4) establishment of programs that will focus and apply scientific and technological efforts involving biological, physical, and engineering sciences to all facets of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases with emphasis on refinement, development, and evaluation of technological devices that will assist, replace, or monitor vital organs and improve instrumentation for detection, diagnosis, and treatment of those diseases; "(5) establishment of programs for the conduct and direction of field studies, large-scale testing and evaluation, and demonstration of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative approaches to, and emergency medical services for, such diseases; (6) studies and research into blood diseases and blood, and into the use of blood for clinical purposes and all aspects of the management of its resources in this country, including the collection, preservation, f ractionalization, and distribution of it and its products; "(7) the education and training of scientists, clinicians, and educators, in fields and specialties (including computer sciences) requisite to the conduct of programs respecting heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; "(8) public and professional education relating to all aspects of such diseases and the use of blood and blood products and the •• management of blood resources: "(9) establishment of programs for study and research into heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases of children (includinor cystic fibrosis, hyaline membrane, and hemolytic and hemophilic diseases) and for the development and demonstration of diagnostic, treatment, and preventive approaches to these diseases; and "(10) establishment of programs for study, research, development, demonstrations and evaluation of emergency medical services for people who become critically ill in connection with heart, blood vessel, lung, or blood diseases, which programs shall include programs for (A) the training of paraprofessionals in (i) emergency treatment procedures, and (ii) utilization and operation of emergency medical equipment, (B) the development and operation of (i) mobile critical care units (including helicopters and other airborne units where appropriate), (ii) radio, telecommunications, and other means of communications, and (iii) electronic monitoring systems, and (C) the coordination with other community services and agencies in the joint use of all forms of emergency vehicles, communications systems, and other appropriate services. The Program shall give special emphasis to the continued develop- ^^*'f°Ne^ lou^'. ment in the Institute of programs relating to atherosclerosis, hyper- ical Disea"sTs"fnd tension, thrombosis, and congenital abnormalities of the blood vessels stroke, coordinaas causes of stroke, and to effective coordination of such programs °"' with related stroke programs in the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke. Plan develop"(b)(1) The plan required by subsection (a) of this section shall ment; transmittal (A) be developed within one hundred and eighty days after the effec- to Congress. tive date of this section, (B) be transmitted to the Congress, and (C) set out the Institute's staff requirements to carry out the Program and lecommendations for appropriations for the Program.
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