Texas Administrative Code › Title 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS › Part 9 - TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD › Chapter 188 - PERFUSIONISTS › Section 188.2 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
(1) Act--The Licensed
				Perfusionists Act, Title 3, Subtitle K, Texas Occupations Code Annotated
				Chapter 603.
(2) Active duty--A
				person who is currently serving as full-time military service member in the
				armed forces of the United States or active duty military service as a member
				of the Texas military forces, as defined by §
									437.001, Government
				Code, or similar military service of another state.
(3) Address of record--The mailing address of
				each licensee or applicant as provided to the agency pursuant to the
				Act.
(4) Advisory committee--The
				Perfusionist Licensure Advisory Committee, an informal advisory committee to
				the board whose purpose is to advise the board regarding rules relating to the
				licensure, enforcement, and discipline of perfusionists.
(5) APA--Administrative Procedure Act, Texas
				Government Code, Chapter 2001 as amended.
(6) Applicant--A person seeking a
				perfusionist license from the board.
(7) Armed forces of the United States--Army,
				Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Marine Corps of the United States or a reserve
				unit of one of those branches of the armed forces.
(8) Board--The Texas Medical Board.
(9) Delegating physician--A physician
				licensed by the board who delegates, to a licensed perfusionist, the practice
				of perfusion.
(10) Health care
				professional--A licensed perfusionist, provisional licensed perfusionist, or
				any person licensed, certified, or registered by the state in a health-related
				profession.
(11) Military service
				member--A person who is on active duty.
(12) Military spouse--A person who is married
				to a military service member.
(13)
				Military veteran--A person who served on active duty and who was discharged or
				released from active duty.
(14)
				Perfusion--The function necessary for the support, treatment, measurement, or
				supplementation of the cardiovascular, circulatory, or respiratory system, or a
				combination of those activities, and to ensure the safe management of
				physiologic functions by monitoring the parameters of the system under an order
				and under the supervision of a licensed physician, including:
(A) the use of extracorporeal circulation,
				cardiopulmonary support techniques, and other therapeutic and diagnostic
				technologies;
(B) counterpulsation,
				ventricular assistance, or autotransfusion (including blood conservation
				techniques), administration of cardioplegia, and isolated limb
				perfusion;
(C) the use of
				techniques involving blood management, advanced life support, and other related
				functions; and
(D) in the
				performance of the acts described in this subparagraph:
(i) the administration of:
(I) pharmacological and therapeutic agents;
				or
(II) blood products or
				anesthetic agents through the extracorporeal circuit or through an intravenous
				line as ordered by a physician;
(ii) the performance and use of:
(I) anticoagulation analysis;
(II) physiologic analysis;
(III) blood gas and chemistry
				analysis;
(IV) hematocrit
				analysis;
(V)
				hypothermia;
(VI)
				hyperthermia;
(VII)
				hemoconcentration; and
(VIII)
				hemodilution; and
(iii)
				the observation of signs and symptoms related to perfusion services, the
				determination of whether the signs and symptoms exhibit abnormal
				characteristics, and the implementation of appropriate reporting, perfusion
				protocols, or changes in or the initiation of emergency procedures.