KRS 311.864: Definitions for KRS 311.864 to 311.890.

As used in KRS 311.864 to 311.890 unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Advisory Committee for Surgical Assistants" means the advisory committee

created in KRS 311.868;

(2) "Board" means the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure;

(3) "Delegating physician" means a physician who is licensed by the board as either a

doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathy, or doctor of podiatric medicine and who

assumes responsibility for the services rendered by a surgical assistant;

(4) "Direct supervision" means supervision by a delegating physician who is physically

present and who personally directs delegated acts and remains immediately

available to personally respond to any emergency until the patient is released from

the operating room or care and has been transfe rred to the care and responsibility of

another physician;

(5) "President" means the president of the board; and

(6) "Surgical assisting" means providing aid under direct supervision in exposure,

hemostasis, closures, and other intraoperative technical func tions that assist a

physician in performing a safe operation with optimal results for the patient.