Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 630 - Physicians, Physician Assistants, Medical Assistants, Perfusionists and Practitioners of Respiratory Care
DISCIPLINARY ACTION
Section 630.255 - Exemption from grounds: "Intractable pain" defined

For the purposes of NRS 630.3066, "intractable pain" means a condition of discomfort for which the cause cannot be removed or otherwise treated and for which a method of providing relief, or of which a cure for the cause, has not been found after reasonable efforts have been taken in accordance with accepted standards for the practice of medicine, including, but not limited to, evaluation by an attending physician and one or more physicians specializing in the treatment of the area, system, or organ of the body which is believed to be the source of the discomfort.

Added to NAC by Bd. of Medical Exam'rs, eff. 7-18-96

NRS 630.130, 630.135, 630.3066