2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 134 - (6630 - 6636) LICENSED PERFUSIONISTS
6630 - Definitions.

*    6630.  Definitions.  As  used  in  this  article:  1.  The  term
  "perfusionist" means a person who  is  licensed  to  practice  perfusion
  pursuant to this article.
2.  The term "registered program" means a program for the education of
  perfusionists which has been registered by the department or  determined
  by the department to be the substantial equivalent.
3.  The  term  "perfusion"  means  the  provision of extracorporeal or
  intracorporeal  patient  care  services  to  support  or   replace   the
  circulatory   or  respiratory  function  of  a  patient,  including  the
  administration of pharmacological  and  therapeutic  agents,  and  blood
  products,   and   the   management,  treatment  and  monitoring  of  the
  physiological status of a patient during the operation of extracorporeal
  circulation equipment  or  intracorporeal  equipment  that  replaces  or
  support circulatory or respiratory functions.
All perfusion services shall be pursuant to the order and direction of
  a  physician.  Perfusion services may be performed in a general hospital
  licensed pursuant to article twenty-eight of the public  health  law  or
  during  the  transport of patients or organs supported by extracorporeal
  or intracorporeal equipment.
4. The term  "committee"  means  the  state  committee  for  perfusion
  created by section sixty-six hundred thirty-four of this article.
* NB Effective October 21, 2016