- (a) A general acute care hospital must have an anesthesia service. A physician must have overall responsibility for supervision of the anesthesia service.
- (b) Anesthesia care may be provided only by a physician or dentist with anesthesia privileges, a registered nurse anesthetist, or an appropriately supervised trainee in an educational program approved by the department.
- (c) An anesthesia staff member shall be available or on call at all times.
(d) Anesthesia procedures developed by an anesthetist or anesthesiologist must provide for written documentation of the following:
- (1) visits to a patient by an anesthetist or anesthesiologist before and after the patient has been administered an anesthesia; the post-anesthesia evaluation of a patient may be completed and documented by any individual described in (b) of this section and qualified to administer anesthesia;
- (2) the choice of anesthesia;
- (3) the surgical procedure and presence or absence of complications;
- (4) a record of events during the induction, maintenance and emergence from anesthesia; and
- (5) the amount and duration of anesthetic agents, other drugs, intravenous fluids and blood or blood products administered.
- (e) Rules for the safe use of flammable anesthetic agents must conform to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards set out in NFPA 99: Standard for Health Care Facilities, 2005 edition, adopted by reference.
(Eff. 11/19/83, Register 88; am 5/4/97, Register 142; am 12/17/2005, Register 176; am 9/30/2007, Register 183)