Arizona Administrative Code
Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 16 - ARIZONA MEDICAL BOARD
Article 7 - OFFICE-BASED SURGERY USING SEDATION
Section R4-16-705 - Perioperative Period; Patient Discharge
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
A physician performing office-based surgery using sedation shall ensure all of the following:
1. During office-based surgery using sedation, the physician is physically present in the room where office-based surgery is performed;
2. After the office-based surgery using sedation is performed, a physician is at the physician's office and sufficiently free of other duties to respond to an emergency until the patient's post-sedation monitoring is discontinued;
3. If using minimal sedation, the physician or a health care professional certified in ACLS, PALS, or BLS is at the physician's office and sufficiently free of other duties to respond to an emergency until the patient is discharged;
4. If using deep or moderate sedation, the physician or a health care professional certified in ACLS or PALS is at the physician's office and sufficiently free of other duties to respond to an emergency until the patient is discharged;
5. A discharge is documented in the patient's medical record including:
6. A patient receives discharge instructions and documents in the patient's medical record that the patient received the discharge instructions.
