Texas Administrative Code › Title 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS › Part 5 - STATE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS › Chapter 100 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 100.12 - Advisory Committee on Dental Anesthesia

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Pursuant to §
									258.202 of the
				Texas Occupations Code, the board establishes an advisory committee: the
				Advisory Committee on Dental Anesthesia.
(b) Purpose. The purpose of the advisory
				committee is to analyze and report on de-identified data and associated trends
				concerning anesthesia-related deaths or incidents. The data and information
				provided by the agency to the advisory committee is confidential. The
				recommendations and findings reported by the advisory committee to the board
				are public information and published on the board's Internet website.
(c) Compilation of Information by Agency. The
				agency shall identify investigations and provide confidential, de-identified
				information regarding the investigations to the advisory committee as described
				below:
(1) By September 30 of each year, the
				agency shall identify official investigations in which the preliminary
				investigation was initiated after September 1, 2016, and the official
				investigation was resolved by the board in the preceding fiscal year, which
				involve anesthesia-related deaths or incidents. A death shall be considered
				anesthesia-related if the dental treatment involved the administration of an
				anesthetic or sedative agent in the dental office, including local anesthesia,
				and a death occurred. An incident shall be considered anesthesia-related if the
				dental treatment involved the administration of an anesthetic or sedative agent
				in a dental office, including local anesthesia, and the Dental Review Panel
				identified a complication associated with the administration of the anesthetic
				or sedative agent.
(2) By November
				30 of each year, the agency shall compile confidential, de-identified
				information on each investigation identified under paragraph (1) of this
				subsection, including, but not limited to, the following information:
(A) Information about respondent:
(i) Whether respondent is a Medicaid
				provider;
(ii) Respondent's highest
				sedation/anesthesia permit level;
(iii) Whether respondent reported providing
				anesthesia services in more than one location on the licensee's application or
				latest renewal;
(iv) Respondent's
				self-reported practice area; and
(v) Whether the investigation was initiated
				as the result of a complaint submitted by a patient or member of the public, as
				a self-report to the agency required by Board Rule 108.6, or both.
(B) Information about patient:
(i) Patient ASA, as identified in
				respondent's dental records and/or determined by Dental Review Panel;
(ii) Patient age -- under the age of 13, 13
				and over but under 18, 18 and over but under 75, and 75 and over;
(iii) Location of the treatment investigated
				by the agency -- dental office, hospital, ASC, office of other
				practitioner;
(iv) Level of
				sedation/anesthesia administered -- Local, Nitrous, I, II, III, IV (determined
				by Dental Review Panel);
(v)
				Sedation/anesthesia administrator -- respondent, other dentist, MD, CRNA
				(determined by Dental Review Panel); and
(vi) Whether treatment investigated by the
				agency was paid by Medicaid; and
(C) The Dental Review Panel report designated
				as the final report by the Dental Review Panel.
(3) By November 30 of each year, the agency
				shall provide the information identified under paragraph (2) of this subsection
				to the members of the advisory committee.
(4) On request of the advisory committee, the
				agency may provide confidential, de-identified investigative files to the
				advisory committee in addition to the information provided under paragraph (2)
				of this subsection. Pursuant to § 258.505 of the Texas Occupations Code,
				the advisory committee may conduct a closed meeting to review confidential
				investigative files provided to the advisory committee under this
				paragraph.