Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 71 - KANSAS DENTAL BOARD › Article 5 - SEDATIVE AND GENERAL ANAESTHESIA › Section 71-5-7 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
As used in these regulations, the following terms shall have
				the meanings specified in this regulation:
(a) "Administer" means to deliver a pharmacological agent to
				the patient by an enteral or a parenteral route at the direction of a dentist
				while in a dental office.
(b) "Adult patient" means a patient who is more than 12 years
				of age.
(c) "Anxiolysis" means the diminution or elimination of anxiety
				through the means of a single drug or combination of agents prescribed or
				administered by a dentist and used so as not to induce conscious sedation when
				used alone or in combination with nitrous oxide.
(d) "Conscious sedation" and "conscious sedative state" mean a
				minimally depressed level of consciousness that retains the patient's ability
				to independently and continuously maintain an airway and respond appropriately
				to physical stimulation or verbal commands and that is produced by any
				pharmacological or nonpharmacologi-cal agent or a combination of these
				agents.
(e) "Deep sedation" means an induced state of depressed
				consciousness accompanied by a partial loss of protective reflexes or the
				ability to continuously and independently maintain an airway and to respond
				purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal commands. Deep sedation is
				produced by a pharmacological or non-pharmacological agent or a combination of
				these agents.
(f) "Dentist" means any person licensed by the board to
				practice dentistry and any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery
				that practices dentistry as a specialty.
(g) "End-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring" means a process to
				determine the percent of carbon dioxide in a patient's breath through the use
				of a carbon dioxide monitor.
(h) "Enteral conscious sedation" and "combination
				in-halation-enteral conscious sedation" mean the use of one or more sedative
				agents that are absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract or oral mucosa,
				including by oral, rectal, and sublingual administration, either by themselves
				or in combination with nitrous oxide and oxygen to render a patient in a
				conscious sedative state.
(i) "General anesthesia" means an induced state of
				unconsciousness accompanied by a partial or complete loss of protective
				reflexes, including the inability to continuously and independently maintain an
				airway and to respond purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal commands.
				General anesthesia is produced by a pharmacological or nonpharmacological agent
				or a combination of these agents.
(j) "Medical care facility" has the meaning specified in
				K.S.A.
				65-425  and amendments thereto.
(k) "Parenteral conscious sedation" means the use of one or
				more sedative agents that bypass the gastrointestinal tract, including by
				intramuscular, intravenous, in-tranasal, submucosal, subcutaneous, and
				intraocular administration, to render a patient in a conscious sedative
				state.
(l) "Treating dentist" means a dentist with a level I, II, or
				III permit who treats a patient while the patient is under conscious sedation,
				deep sedation, or general anesthesia.
(m) "Vital signs" means blood pressure, heart rate, and
				respiratory rate.