NRS630.0137. “Perfusion” defined.

      1.  “Perfusion” means the performance of functions which are necessary to provide for the support, treatment, measurement or supplementation of a patient’s cardiovascular, circulatory or respiratory system or other organs, or any combination of those activities, and to ensure the safe management of the patient’s physiological functions by monitoring and analyzing the parameters of the patient’s systems or organs under the order and supervision of a physician.

      2.  The term includes, without limitation:

      (a) The use of extracorporeal circulation and any associated therapeutic and diagnostic technologies; and

      (b) The use of long-term cardiopulmonary support techniques.

      3.  As used in this section, “extracorporeal circulation” means the diversion of a patient’s blood through a heart-lung bypass machine or a similar device that assumes the functions of the patient’s heart, lungs, kidney, liver or other organs.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 2943)