Arizona Administrative Code
Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 16 - ARIZONA MEDICAL BOARD
Article 7 - OFFICE-BASED SURGERY USING SEDATION
Section R4-16-704 - Sedation Monitoring Standards
Universal Citation: AZ Admin Code R 4-16-704
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
A physician who performs office-based surgery using sedation shall ensure from the time sedation is administered until post-sedation monitoring begins:
1. A quantitative method of assessing a patient's oxygenation, such as pulse oximetry, is used when minimal sedation is administered to the patient, and
2. When moderate or deep sedation is administered to a patient:
a. A quantitative
method of assessing the patient's oxygenation, such as pulse oximetry, is
used;
b. The patient's ventilatory
function is monitored by any of the following:
i. Direct observation,
ii. Auscultation, or
iii. Capnography;
c. The patient's circulatory function is
monitored during the surgery by:
i. Having a
continuously displayed electrocardiogram,
ii. Documenting arterial blood pressure and
heart rate at least every five minutes, and
iii. Evaluating the patient's cardiovascular
function by pulse plethysmography,
d. The patient's temperature is monitored if
the physician expects the patient's temperature to fluctuate; and
e. That a licensed and qualified healthcare
professional, other than the physician performing the office-based surgery,
whose sole responsibility is attending to the patient, is present throughout
the office-based surgery.
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