California Business and Professions Code

§ 3702

BPC § 3702 Effective Jan 1, 2016Div. 2 · Ch. 8.3 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Respiratory care as a practice means a health care profession employed under the supervision of a medical director in the therapy, management, rehabilitation, diagnostic evaluation, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities which affect the pulmonary system and associated aspects of cardiopulmonary and other systems functions, and includes all of the following:

(1)Direct and indirect pulmonary care services that are safe, aseptic, preventive, and restorative to the patient.

(2)Direct and indirect respiratory care services, including, but not limited to, the administration of pharmacological and diagnostic and therapeutic agents related to respiratory care procedures necessary to implement a treatment, disease prevention, pulmonary rehabilitative, or diagnostic regimen prescribed by a physician and surgeon.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 247, Sec. 2. (SB 525) Effective January 1, 2016.