SB 5: Licensure of perfusionists
Description
- Grants licensure status to the profession of perfusionists. A perfusionist operates extracorporeal circulation equipment during any medical procedure in which it is necessary to artificially support or temporarily replace a patient's circulatory or respiratory functions, such as in open heart surgery or other heart procedures.
KMS Position
- Neutral
Status
- 3.1.2012: Hearing in House Health & Human Services
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1.11.2012: Referred to House Health & Human Services
- 2.14.2011: Passed Senate
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2.7.2011: Passed, as amended, by committee. Amendment clarrifed that "physician" means "a person licensed to practice medicine & surgery."
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1.18.2011: Hearing held in Senate Public Health & Welfare
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