26 Tex. Admin. Code § 503.48 - Labor and Birth Procedures
(a) Labor and birth
shall be managed and attended by a birth attendant.
(b) The birth attendant shall be trained in
the use of emergency equipment.
(c)
A center shall ensure that its birth attendants encourage a client to seek
medical care if the birth attendant recognizes a sign or symptom of a
complication to the client's childbirth.
(d) Other clinical care provider(s) and/or a
birth attendant, shall be physically present in the center whenever a client is
in the center until the client is discharged. The clinical care provider shall
be capable of performing the following minimum duties:
(1) monitoring the fetal heartbeat;
(2) monitoring the mother's blood pressure,
pulse, and temperature;
(3)
performing adult and infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if needed;
(4) monitoring the newborn's heart rate,
respiratory rate and body temperature; and
(5) assessing the client's fundus and blood
loss.
(e) A birth
attendant shall be physically present to conduct the delivery and be available
during the acute postpartum period.
(f) Interventions shall be limited to those
required to accomplish a vaginal delivery.
(g) No general, epidural, or subdural
anesthetic agent shall be administered in a center.
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