149.5 - AMPUTATIONS -- ANESTHESIA -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. - Iowa Statutes

149.5 AMPUTATIONS -- ANESTHESIA -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. 1. A license to practice podiatry shall not authorize the licensee to amputate the human foot. 2. A licensed podiatric physician may do all of the following: a. Administer local anesthesia. b. Administer conscious sedation in a hospital or an ambulatory surgical center. c. Prescribe and administer drugs for the treatment of human foot ailments as provided in section 149.1.          Section History: Early Form [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2546; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 149.5]          Section History: Recent Form 88 Acts, ch 1199, §4; 95 Acts, ch 108, § 10; 2003 Acts, ch 22, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §200