The provisions of this rule control the treatment of patients
where an anesthesia permitted dentist sedates the dental patient in his or her
dental office that is on file with the board as an authorized location to
perform sedation services that has been inspected pursuant to Rule
64B5-14.007, F.A.C., and a
Florida licensed dentist without an anesthesia permit performs the dental
treatment. This rule shall control notwithstanding any rule provision in this
chapter to the contrary, which prohibits such conduct.
(1) The permitted dentist shall perform the
sedation in his or her out-patient dental office where the permitted dentist is
authorized to perform the anesthesia services;
(2) The permitted dentist shall remain with
the patient from the onset of the performance of the anesthesia until discharge
of the patient;
(3) The permitted
dentist shall have no other patient induced with anesthesia or begin the
performance of any other anesthesia services until the patient is
discharged;
(4) The treating
dentist shall have taken a minimum of four hours of continuing education in
airway management prior to treating any sedated patient. Two hours must be in
didactic training in providing dentistry on sedated patients with compromised
airways and two hours must include hands-on training in airway management of
sedated patients. After the initial airway management course, the treating
dentist shall continue to repeat a minimum of four hours in airway management
every four years from the date the course was last taken by the dentist. The
continuing education courses taken may be credited toward the mandatory thirty
hours of continuing education required for licensure renewal. The requirement
that a dentist must first have taken an initial airway management course before
treating a sedated patient shall not take effect until March 1,
2014.
Notes
Fla. Admin.
Code Ann. R. 64B5-14.0036
Rulemaking Authority
466.004(4),
466.017 FS. Law Implemented
466.017
FS.
New 3-14-13, Amended
8-19-13, Amended by
Florida
Register Volume 46, Number 038, February 25, 2020 effective
3/10/2020.
New 3-14-13, Amended 8-19-13,
3-10-20.
