T-5 - Act respecting medical imaging technologists, radiation oncology technologists and medical electrophysiology technologists

Section 11.1 Disposition versions

2012-11-21

11.1. The practice of medical electrophysiology technology consists in gathering and recording the bioelectric potentials of organs or systems of the human body, or the sound waves of the cardiac system or the supra-aortic vascular system, to produce images or data for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

The following activities in the practice of medical electrophysiology technology are reserved to medical electrophysiology technologists:

(1)  analyzing and selecting the data gathered during a prescribed recording of cardiac or cerebral bioelectric activity;

(2)  performing a stress electrocardiogram, according to a prescription;

(3)  administering prescribed medications or other prescribed substances by oral, nasal or pharyngeal routes;

(4)  administering urgently required medications using an intravenous line already in place, according to an individual prescription;

(5)  mixing substances to complete the preparation of a medication, according to a prescription;

(6)  introducing a needle under the dermis for monitoring purposes, according to a prescription;

(7)  using invasive electric energy, according to a prescription;

(8)  verifying the functioning of a pacemaker or a pacemaker-defibrillator according to a prescription, provided a training certificate has been issued to the technologist by the Order in accordance with the regulation under paragraph o of section 94 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26);

(9)  programming a pacemaker or a pacemaker-defibrillator according to a prescription, provided a training certificate has been issued to the technologist by the Order in accordance with the regulation under paragraph o of section 94 of the Professional Code;

(10)  performing echocardiography or vascular ultrasonography according to a prescription, provided a training certificate has been issued to the technologist by the Order in accordance with the regulation under paragraph o of section 94 of the Professional Code;

(11)  performing carotid or transcranial Doppler ultrasonography according to a prescription, provided a training certificate has been issued to the technologist by the Order in accordance with the regulation under paragraph o of section 94 of the Professional Code;

(12)  introducing an esophageal balloon for the purposes of a polysomnography according to a prescription, provided a training certificate has been issued to the technologist by the Order in accordance with the regulation under paragraph o of section 94 of the Professional Code; and

(13)  adjusting the masks for a Bi-Pap or C-Pap for the purposes of a polysomnography according to a prescription, provided a training certificate has been issued to the technologist by the Order in accordance with the regulation under paragraph o of section 94 of the Professional Code.

2012, c. 10, s. 6.