South Carolina Code 40-47-1560. Authorized tasks and services; supervision by cardiologist; written protocols
(1) perform baseline patient assessment;
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 40-47-1560
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- Cardiologist: means a physician who has successfully completed an approved cardiology training program including, but not limited to, a program approved by the Accreditation Committee on Graduate Medical Education, or its equivalent or successor. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1520
- Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist: means a cardiovascular invasive specialist who is currently registered by Cardiovascular Credentialing International, has graduated from an accredited program of Cardiovascular Invasive Technology and who working under the direct supervision of a cardiologist performs procedures on patients resulting in accurate diagnosis and/or optimal treatment of congenital or acquired heart disease. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1520
- License: means a current document authorizing a person to practice. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Physician: means a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed by the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
- Practice of Medicine: means :
(a) advertising, holding out to the public or representing in any manner that one is authorized to practice medicine in this State;
(b) offering or undertaking to prescribe, order, give, or administer any drug or medicine for the use of any other person;
(c) offering or undertaking to prevent or to diagnose, correct or treat in any manner, or by any means, methods, or devices, disease, illness, pain, wound, fracture, infirmity, defect, or abnormal physical or mental condition of a person, including the management of pregnancy and parturition;
(d) offering or undertaking to perform any surgical operation upon a person;
(e) rendering a written or otherwise documented medical opinion concerning the diagnosis or treatment of a patient or the actual rendering of treatment to a patient within this State by a physician located outside the State as a result of transmission of individual patient data by electronic or other means from within a state to such physician or his or her agent;
(f) rendering a determination of medical necessity or a decision affecting the diagnosis and/or treatment of a patient is the practice of medicine subject to all of the powers provided to the Board of Medical Examiners, except as provided in § 38-59-25;
(g) using the designation Doctor, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Physician, Surgeon, Physician and Surgeon, Dr. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20 - Supervision: means medically directing and accepting responsibility for the cardiac services rendered by a registered cardiovascular invasive specialist in a manner provided for in law and the adopted protocol of the licensed facility. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1520
(2) evaluate patient response to diagnostic or interventional maneuvers and medications during cardiac catheterization laboratory procedures;
(3) provide patient care and drug administration commonly used in the cardiac catheterization laboratory under the direction of a qualified physician and subject to the oversight of the facility;
(4) act as the first assistant during diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization procedures; and
(5) assist in advanced cardiac life support procedures.
(B) A cardiovascular invasive specialist shall practice only under the supervision of a physician who is actively and directly engaged in the clinical practice of medicine as a cardiologist.
(C) A cardiovascular invasive specialist practicing at all sites shall practice pursuant to written scope of the facility’s practice protocols signed by all supervising cardiologists and the cardiovascular invasive specialists. Copies of the protocols must be on file at all practice sites. The protocols shall include at a minimum the:
(1) name, license number, and practice addresses of the supervising cardiologists;
(2) name and practice address of the cardiovascular invasive specialists;
(3) date the protocol was developed and dates it was reviewed or amended;
(4) situations that require direct evaluation by or immediate referral to a cardiologist.