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149.5 - AMPUTATIONS -- ANESTHESIA -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

        149.5  AMPUTATIONS -- ANESTHESIA -- PRESCRIPTION
      DRUGS.
         1.  A license to practice podiatry shall not authorize the
      licensee to amputate the human foot.
         2.  A licensed podiatric physician may do all of the following:
         a.  Administer local anesthesia.
         b.  Administer conscious sedation in a hospital or an
      ambulatory surgical center.
         c.  Prescribe and administer drugs for the treatment of human
      foot ailments as provided in section 149.1.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2546; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
      75, 77, 79, 81, § 149.5] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         88 Acts, ch 1199, §4; 95 Acts, ch 108, § 10; 2003 Acts, ch 22, §1;
      2009 Acts, ch 133, §200