(1) for setting qualifications of education, skill and experience for licensure of a person as an anesthesiologist assistant;

(2) for providing procedures and forms for licensure and annual registration;

(3) for examining and evaluating applicants for licensure as an anesthesiologist assistant regarding the required skill, knowledge and experience in developing and implementing anesthesia care plans under supervision;

(4) for allowing a supervising anesthesiologist to temporarily delegate his supervisory responsibilities for an anesthesiologist assistant to another anesthesiologist;

(5) for allowing an anesthesiologist assistant to temporarily serve under the supervision of an anesthesiologist other than the supervising anesthesiologist with whom the anesthesiologist assistant is registered; and

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(6) to carry out the provisions of the Anesthesiologist
Assistant Act.

(b) The Board shall not adopt a rule allowing an anesthesiologist assistant to perform procedures outside the anesthesiologist assistant’s scope of practice.

(c) The Board shall adopt rules, to include, but not be limited to:

(1) establishing requirements for anesthesiologist assistant licensing, including:

(A) completion of a graduate level training program accredited by the commission on accreditation of allied health education programs;

(B) successful completion of a certifying examination for anesthesiologist assistants administered by the national commission for the certification of anesthesiologist assistants; and

(C) current certification, recognized by the Board, in advanced cardiac life-support techniques;

(2) establishing minimum requirements for continuing education of not less than forty (40) hours every two (2) years;

(3) requiring adequate identification of the anesthesiologist assistant to patients and others;

(4) requiring the presence, except in cases of emergency, and the documentation of the presence, of the supervising anesthesiologist in the operating room during induction of a general or regional anesthetic and during emergence from a general anesthetic, the presence of the supervising anesthesiologist within the operating suite and immediate availability to the operating room at other times when the anesthetic procedure is being performed and requiring that the anesthesiologist assistant comply with the above restrictions;

(5) requiring the supervising anesthesiologist to ensure that all activities, functions, services, and treatment measures

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are properly documented in written form by the anesthesiologist assistant. The anesthesia record shall be reviewed, countersigned, and dated by the supervising anesthesiologist;

(6) requiring the anesthesiologist assistant to inform the supervising anesthesiologist of serious adverse events;

(7) establishing the number of anesthesiologist assistants a supervising anesthesiologist may supervise at one time, which number, except in emergency cases, shall not exceed two (2). An anesthesiologist shall not concurrently supervise, except in emergency cases, more than three (3) anesthesia providers during the emergency, and only if they are a licensed anesthesiologist assistant, or as otherwise determined to be appropriate by the Board during emergency cases only;

(8) within three (3) months of the date on which the Anesthesiologist Assistant Act becomes effective, providing for enhanced supervision at the commencement of an anesthesiologist assistant’s practice; and

(9) establishing appropriate fees.