M-9, r. 5 - Regulation respecting the professional activities that may be engaged in by a physician assistant in the Canadian Forces

Section 5 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

5. The physician assistant may, according to a prescription and in the presence of a physician, another qualified professional or a medical resident, engage in the following professional activities:

(1)  perform a venous puncture;

(2)  perform a radial arterial puncture;

(3)  perform intubation;

(4)  provide care and treatment for wounds and alterations of the skin;

(5)  make sutures of cutaneous and subcutaneous wounds;

(6)  apply plaster casts;

(7)  insert a short peripheral intravenous catheter;

(8)  introduce an instrument beyond the pharynx;

(9)  introduce an instrument beyond the urinary meatus;

(10)  provide tracheostomy maintenance care;

(11)  remove a foreign body from beyond the nasal vestibule, the external auditory canal, the skin or the surface of the eye;

(12)  make an incision and drain a superficial abscess;

(13)  irrigate an external auditory canal;

(14)  apply nasal packing.

O.C. 134-2008, s. 5.