Current through December 12, 2024
1. Before utilizing the services of an
anesthesiologist assistant in the treatment of a patient, a supervising
osteopathic anesthesiologist shall:
(a)
Provide the patient with a form which includes:
(1) Notice that the supervising
anesthesiologist utilizes the services of an anesthesiologist assistant;
and
(2) A place for the patient to
provide affirmative consent to receiving services from the anesthesiologist
assistant; and
(b)
Obtain the written affirmative consent of the patient pursuant to subparagraph
(2) of paragraph (a) to receiving services from the anesthesiologist
assistant.
2. Notice
provided pursuant to subparagraph (1) of paragraph (a) of subsection 1 must
include, without limitation, an explanation:
(a) Of the role of an anesthesiologist
assistant; and
(b) That an
anesthesiologist assistant is not a physician and provides anesthesia care to a
patient only under the constant medial direction of a supervising osteopathic
anesthesiologist.
3. The
supervising osteopathic anesthesiologist of an anesthesiologist assistant
shall:
(a) Adopt a written protocol regarding
the practice and supervision of anesthesiologist assistants that meets the
requirements of subsection 4; and
(b) Provide a copy of the written protocol
adopted pursuant to paragraph (a) to:
(1) Each
anesthesiologist assistant that the supervising osteopathic anesthesiologist
supervises; and
(2) The Board, upon
request of the Board.
4. A written protocol regarding the practice
and supervision of anesthesiologist assistants adopted pursuant to paragraph
(a) of subsection 3 must:
(a) Comply with the
provisions of this chapter and chapter 633 of NRS with regard to the tasks that
an anesthesiologist assistant may perform;
(b) Detail the tasks that the
anesthesiologist assistant may perform and the manner in which the supervising
osteopathic anesthesiologist will supervise the anesthesiologist assistant in
the performance of those tasks;
(c)
Provide for regular review by the supervising osteopathic anesthesiologist of
the medical records of any patients delegated to the anesthesiologist
assistant; and
(d) Be based upon
consideration of relevant quality assurance standards.
5. A supervising osteopathic anesthesiologist
shall provide medical direction to an anesthesiologist assistant in the
performance of all medical tasks delegated to the anesthesiologist
assistant.
6. A supervising
osteopathic anesthesiologist shall not, at any one time, supervise more than
four anesthesiologist assistants.
Added
to NAC by Bd. of Osteopathic Med. by
R001-24A,
eff. 10/28/2024
NRS
633.291 and section 49 of Assembly Bill No.
270, chapter 247, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1567 (NRS
633.4252)
