Tennessee Code 63-28-103 – License eligibility
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-28-103
- Committee: means the committee for clinical perfusion. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
- Perfusion: means the functions necessary for the support, treatment, measurement or supplementation of the cardiovascular, circulatory or respiratory systems, or other organs, or a combination of such activities, and to ensure the safe management of physiologic functions by monitoring and analyzing the parameters of the systems under an order and under the supervision of a licensed physician, including:
(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 technologies. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102 - Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
A person is eligible to make application to the committee and receive a license if such person is actively engaged in the practice of perfusion consistent with this chapter and if such person, on January 1, 2000, has at least four (4) years’ experience, within the immediately preceding six (6) years, operating cardiopulmonary bypass systems during cardiac surgical cases in a licensed health care facility as the person’s primary function.