Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1343

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Perfusion: means the functions necessary for the support, treatment, measurement, or supplementation of the cardiovascular, circulatory, respiratory systems or other organs, or a combination of those activities, and to ensure the safe management of physiologic functions by monitoring and analyzing the parameters:

    (a)  The use of extracorporeal circulation, long-term cardiopulmonary support techniques, including extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and associated therapeutic and diagnostic techniques. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333

  • Perfusionist: means a person, qualified by academic and clinical education, to operate the extracorporeal circulation equipment during any medical situation where it is necessary to support or replace a person's cardiopulmonary, circulatory, or respiratory function. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333

Nothing in this Part shall be construed in such a way as to prohibit:

(1)  Any legally qualified perfusionist employed by the United States government from engaging in the practice of perfusion while in the discharge of his official duties.

(2)  One or more licensed perfusionists from forming a professional service corporation in accordance with the Professional Service Corporation Act.

(3)  The monitoring of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit by a properly trained medical professional, in conjunction and with the consultation of a licensed perfusionist.

(4)  Qualified health care providers who are not licensed perfusionists or provisional licensed perfusionists from performing autotransfusion under the direct or indirect supervision of a licensed perfusionist.

Acts 2003, No. 811, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.

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