California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 2 — Healing ArtsChapter 5 — MedicineArticle 11.5 — Surgery in Certain Outpatient SettingsSection 2216
On or after July 1, 1996, no physician and surgeon shall perform procedures in an outpatient setting using anesthesia, except local anesthesia or peripheral nerve blocks, or both, complying with the community standard of practice, in doses that, when administered, have the probability of placing a patient at risk for loss of the patient’s life-preserving protective reflexes, unless the setting is specified in Section 1248.1. Outpatient settings where anxiolytics and analgesics are administered are excluded when administered, in compliance with the community standard of practice, in doses that do not have the probability of placing the patient at risk for loss of the patient’s life-preserving protective reflexes.
The definition of “outpatient settings” contained in subdivision (c) of Section 1248 shall apply to this section.
Notes
Prohibits a physician, on or after July 1, 1996, from performing an outpatient procedure using anesthesia at doses likely to risk loss of life-preserving protective reflexes unless it occurs in a qualifying setting. The restriction excludes local or peripheral nerve blocks and anxiolytic or analgesic doses meeting community standards that are not likely to create that risk.
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