(a) The committee shall:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-28-114

  • Board: means the board of medical examiners, created by chapter 6 of this title. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
  • Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
(1) Adopt and publish a code of ethics;
(2) Establish the qualifications and fitness of applicants for licenses, renewal of licenses and reciprocal licenses;
(3) Establish the grounds for revocation, suspension, or denial of a license;
(4) Establish the grounds for placing on probation a holder of a license;
(5) Establish the categories of fees and the amount of fees that may be imposed in connection with a license;
(6) Establish continuing professional education requirements for licensed clinical perfusionists and provisional licensed clinical perfusionists, the standards of which shall be at least as stringent as those of the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion or its successor agency for the license holder’s professional duties; and
(7) Assist in such matters dealing with perfusion as the board may, in its discretion, direct.
(b) Any actions taken under this section shall only be effective after adoption by a majority vote of the members of the committee. The board of medical examiners, by a majority vote of its members at the next board meeting at which administrative matters are considered, may rescind or supersede any action taken by the committee.
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