Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-72 - Radiologic License › Section 3701-72-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Chiropractor" means an individual
			 licensed under Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code to practice
			 chiropractic.
(B) "Cardiac
			 catheterization" means all anatomic or physiological studies of intervention,
			 both diagnostic and therapeutic, in which the heart or coronary arteries are
			 entered via a systemic vein or artery using a catheter that is manipulated
			 under fluoroscopic visualization.
(C) "Comprehensive scope of
			 radiology procedures" means utilizing
			 radiation-generating equipment to perform 
								diagnostic imaging,
			 localization, mobile or portable imaging, mammography, computed
			 tomography, tomography, fluoroscopy, cinefluorography,
			  contrast media studies, interventional procedures and does not include
			 nuclear medicine or radiation therapy.
(D)
								"Computed
			 Tomography Procedures" means diagnostic and interventional computed tomography
			 imaging with the exception of computed tomography used for anatomic
			 localization as part of positron emission and single photon emission computed
			 tomography procedures.
(E) "Continuing
			 education credit (CE credit) " means fifty to sixty minutes of
			 instruction.
(F) "Department" means
			 the Ohio department of health.
(G) "Direct
			 supervision" means guidance and instruction provided to a general x-ray machine
			 operator by a licensed practitioner who is present at the location, and in such
			 immediate proximity so that the licensed practitioner can provide timely
			 consultation and direction when the operator is performing radiologic
			 procedures.
(H) "Director" means
			 the director of health or the director's authorized representative or
			 designee.
(I) "Fluoroscopy" means
			 the use of a fluoroscopic type of radiation-generating equipment for
			 visualizing and imaging internal structures for medical diagnosis.
(J)
			 "General supervision" means guidance and instruction provided by a licensed
			 practitioner to a nuclear medicine technologist, radiographer, radiation
			 therapy technologist or a general x-ray machine operator, who is licensed under
			 Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code, to practice as a registered nurse and is
			 providing occupational health nursing services in an industrial workplace.
			 General supervision does not require the licensed
			 practitioner to observe each radiologic procedure performed or to be present at
			 the location where the procedure is being performed,
								but does require
			 the licensed practitioner  be
			 readily available for purposes of consulting with and directing the individual
			 while performing the procedures.
(K) "General x-ray
			 machine operator"  means an individual who operates ionizing
			 radiation-generating equipment in order to perform standard,
			 radiology procedures; whose performance of
			 such procedures is limited to specific body sites; and
			 who does not, to any significant degree, determine procedure positioning or the
			  dosage of radiation to which a
			 patient is exposed.
(L) "In-vitro" means in
			 an artificial environment outside the living organism.
(M)
			 "In-vivo" means within a living organism.
(N) "Ionizing
			 radiation" means any electromagnetic or particulate radiation that interacts
			 with atoms to produce ionization in matter. Ionizing radiation includes:
			 X-rays, gamma rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons,
			 and other nuclear particles.
(O) "Licensed
			 practitioner" means a physician, chiropractor, podiatrist, or
			 mechanotherapist.
(P) "Mobile imaging"
			 means radiography performed with radiation-generating equipment on wheels, or
			 installed in a van, trailer, or mobile vehicle.
(Q) "Mechanotherapist"
			 means an individual who holds a certificate issued under section
			 4731.151
			 of the Revised Code that authorizes the practice of mechanotherapy.
(R)
			 "Nuclear medicine technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed
			 practitioner, who prepares and administers radio-pharmaceuticals to a patient
			 and conducts in vivo or in vitro detection and measurement of radioactivity for
			 medical purposes.
(S) "Patient" means any
			 human being that receives radiation for diagnostic, therapeutic or medical
			 purposes. "Patient" does not include the application of radiation to a human
			 body in the course of an autopsy.
(T) "Personal
			 supervision" means the supervisor must be in attendance in the room during the
			 performance of the procedure.
(U) "Physician" means
			 an individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of
			 the Revised Code to practice 
			 medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
(V)
			 "Podiatrist" means an individual authorized under
			 Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice
			 
								podiatric medicine and surgery.
(W)
			 "Portable imaging" means radiography performed with radiation-generating
			 equipment designed to be hand carried.
(X) "Radiation safety
			 courses" means continuing education courses designed to enhance the
			 professional's knowledge and skills in reducing unnecessary radiation exposure
			 to the public, patients, or occupational personnel.
(Y) "Radiation
			 therapist," or "radiation therapy technologist," means an individual who utilizes
			 ionizing radiation-generating equipment including therapy simulator
			 radiation-generating equipment for therapeutic purposes on
			 human
			 beings.
(Z) "Radiographer"
			 means an individual who operates ionizing radiation-generating equipment,
			 administers contrast, and determines procedure positioning and the dosage of
			 ionizing radiation in order to perform a comprehensive scope of
			 radiology procedures on
			 human beings.
(AA) "Radiologic
			 license" means a license issued by the director as one of the following:
(1) General x-ray machine operator;
(2) Radiographer;
(3) Nuclear medicine technologist;
			 or
(4) Radiation therapist.