Text: SF00354 Text: SF00356 Text: SF00300 - SF00399 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 149.5, Code 2003, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 149.5 AMPUTATIONS –GENERAL ANESTHETICSANESTHESIA. 1 4 A license to practice podiatry shall not authorize the 1 5 licensee to amputate the human footor use any anesthetics1 6other than local. 1 7 A licensed podiatric physician may administer local 1 8 anesthesia. Conscious sedation may be administered by a 1 9 licensed podiatric physician in a hospital or an ambulatory 1 10 surgical center. 1 11 A licensed podiatric physician may prescribe and administer 1 12 drugs for the treatment of human foot ailments as provided in 1 13 section 149.1. 1 14 EXPLANATION 1 15 This bill relates to the administration of anesthesia by a 1 16 podiatrist. Currently, Code section 149.5 provides that a 1 17 podiatrist shall not be authorized to utilize any anesthetics 1 18 other than local anesthetics. The bill continues to authorize 1 19 the administration of local anesthesia by a licensed podiatric 1 20 physician and provides that conscious sedation may be 1 21 administered by a licensed podiatric physician in a hospital 1 22 or an ambulatory surgical center. 1 23 LSB 2480SV 80 1 24 rn/sh/8
Text: SF00354 Text: SF00356 Text: SF00300 - SF00399 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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