149.5  Amputations -- anesthesia -- prescription drugs.

A license to practice podiatry shall not authorize the licensee to amputate the human foot.

A licensed podiatric physician may administer local anesthesia. Conscious sedation may be administered by a licensed podiatric physician in a hospital or an ambulatory surgical center.

A licensed podiatric physician may prescribe and administer drugs for the treatment of human foot ailments as provided in section 149.1.

Section History: Early form

  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2546; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 149.5]

Section History: Recent form

  88 Acts, ch 1199, §4; 95 Acts, ch 108, § 10; 2003 Acts, ch 22, §1


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