1. (a) A veterinary technician or veterinary technologist who has obtained a certificate of qualification from the Arkansas Board of Animal Health may be allowed to perform the following acts under the direction, supervision, and responsibility of a licensed veterinarian who:

   1. (1) Has established the veterinarian-client-patient relationship; and
   2. (2) Will comply with 17 CAR § 1-105.

2. (b) Immediate supervision:

   1. (1) Surgical assistance to a licensed veterinarian; and
   2. (2) Dental extractions not requiring sectioning of a tooth or the resection of bone.

3. (c) Direct supervision:

   1. (1) Any task or procedure that requires an animal to be under anesthesia;
   2. (2) Induction, maintenance, and monitoring of anesthesia;
   3. (3) Suturing of skin incisions made by a licensed veterinarian;

   4. (4) Dental procedures limited to the following:

      1. (A) Removal of calculus, soft deposits, plaque, and stains; and
      2. (B) Smoothing, filing, and polishing teeth;
   5. (5) Blood or blood component collection, preparation, and administration for blood transfusion; and
   6. (6) Performance of any veterinary technology duties at a livestock auction.

4. (d) Indirect supervision:

   1. (1) Obtain history and perform a physical examination of an animal patient;
   2. (2) Collection of blood for diagnostic laboratory tests, except when in conflict of a state or federal law, rule, or regulation;
   3. (3) Collection and preparation of tissue, cellular, or microbiological samples by skin scrapings, impressions, or other nonsurgical methods, except when in conflict of a state or federal law, rule, or regulation;
   4. (4) Collection of urine by free catch, expression, cystocentesis, or catheterization (unobstructed) and inserting an indwelling urinary catheter;

   5. (5) Collection of fluid by:

      1. (A) Abdominocentesis;
      2. (B) Arthrocentesis; or
      3. (C) Thoracentesis;
   6. (6) Performing laboratory procedures;
   7. (7) Intravenous catheterization;
   8. (8) Administration of parenteral fluid therapy;
   9. (9) Radiograph, ultrasound, EKG, or other diagnostic imaging or monitoring;
   10. (10) Ocular tonometry, Schirmer tear test, fluorescein staining;

   11. (11) Administration and application of:

       1. (A) Treatments, drugs, medications, and immunological agents by parenteral (subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal, intraarticular, and intravenous) and nonparenteral routes, except when in conflict of a state or federal law, rule, or regulation; and
       2. (B) Splints, bandages, and wound dressings;
   12. (12) Measure and prepare medication for dispensing to clients on the order of a licensed veterinarian;
   13. (13) Pregnancy checking of food animals with or without equipment, rectal palpation, artificial insemination, correcting of uterine prolapse, and uncomplicated fetal extractions excluding fetotomies and cesarean sections;

   14. (14) Routine, nonsurgical food animal management practices, including:

       1. (A) Castration;
       2. (B) Dehorning;
       3. (C) Tail docking; and
       4. (D) Ear notching; and
   15. (15) Wound management and care.

Codification Notes: “EKG” means electrocardiogram. This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided the following at the beginning of the section: "(Adopted: 4/30/2020) (Effective: 7/18/2020)".