152B.3 - PERFORMANCE OF RESPIRATORY CARE.
152B.3 PERFORMANCE OF RESPIRATORY CARE.
1. The performance of respiratory care shall be in accordance
with the prescription of a licensed physician or surgeon and includes
but is not limited to the diagnostic and therapeutic use of the
following:
a. Administration of medical gases, aerosols, and
humidification, not including general anesthesia.
b. Environmental control mechanisms and paramedical therapy.
c. Pharmacologic agents relating to respiratory care
procedures.
d. Mechanical or physiological ventilatory support.
e. Bronchopulmonary hygiene.
f. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
g. Maintenance of the natural airways.
h. Insertion without cutting tissues and maintenance of
artificial airways.
i. Specific diagnostic and testing techniques employed in the
medical management of patients to assist in diagnosis, monitoring,
treatment, and research of pulmonary abnormalities, including
measurement of ventilatory volumes, pressures, and flows, collection
of specimens of blood, and collection of specimens from the
respiratory tract.
j. Analysis of blood gases and respiratory secretions.
k. Pulmonary function testing.
l. Hemodynamic and physiologic measurement and monitoring of
cardiac function as it relates to cardiopulmonary pathophysiology.
m. Invasive procedures that relate to respiratory care.
2. A respiratory care practitioner may transcribe and implement a
written or verbal order from a licensed physician or surgeon
pertaining to the practice of respiratory care.
3. This chapter does not authorize a respiratory care
practitioner to practice medicine, surgery, or other medical
practices except as provided in this section. Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 151, §3
CS85, § 135F.3
C93, § 152B.3
2009 Acts, ch 41, §263
Referred to in § 152B.1, 152B.5, 152B.7A, 152B.11