Standard of Care for Office Surgery

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Board of Medicine

RULE NO: RULE TITLE
64B8-9.009: Standard of Care for Office Surgery

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 35 No. 51, December 24, 2009 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

The Rules Committee and the full Board approved language to be stricken from the proposed rule. At the time the rule was submitted for publication in the FAW, the language to be stricken was inadvertently left in the rule.

The first sentence of subparagraph (4)(a)1., shall be changed to read as follows:

1. Level II Office Surgery is that in which peri-operative medication and sedation are used by any means altering the level of consciousness intravenously, intramuscularly, or rectally, thus making intra and post-operative monitoring necessary.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Larry McPherson, Executive Director, Board of Medicine, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C03, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3253