CSA Guidelines for Deep Sedation by Non-Anesthesiologists (5-2008)

• Only physicians or dentists who are qualified by education, training and licensure to administer deep sedation should supervise the administration of deep sedation. Non-anesthesiologist sedation practitioners may directly supervise patient monitoring and the administration of sedative, analgesic or anesthetic medications by a supervised sedation professional. Alternatively, they may personally perform these functions, with the proviso that the individual monitoring the patient should be distinct from the individual performing the diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

• The supervised sedation professional who is granted privileges to administer sedative, analgesic or anesthetic drugs under supervision of an anesthesiologist or a non-anesthesiologist sedation practitioner and to monitor patients during deep sedation can be a registered nurse who has graduated from a qualified school of nursing or a physician assistant who has graduated from an accredited physician assistant program. They may only administer sedative, analgesic or anesthetic medications on the order of an anesthesiologist or non-anesthesiologist sedation practitioner.

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