Section 845IAC1-1-1. Definitions

   The following definitions apply throughout this title:

(1) "Board" means the board of podiatric medicine.

(2) "Bureau" means the health professions bureau established by IC 25-1-5-3.

(3) "Diagnosis" means the examination of a patient, parts of a patient's body, or materials taken or removed from a patient's body, or materials produced by a patient's body, to determine the source or nature of a disease or other physical or mental condition relating to ailments of the human foot.

(4) "Drug or medicine" means any medicine, compound, or chemical or biological preparation intended to be used for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, or prevention of diseases or abnormalities of man or woman which are recognized in the Physician's Desk Reference, 47th Edition, 1993, or otherwise established as a drug or medicine, by federal or state law. The term shall include local anesthetics as defined in subdivision (5).

(5) "Local anesthetics" means a drug or gas that produces a partial or total loss of the sense of pain or touch that is limited in use to an area of the body around the site of its application and is induced to permit performance of a surgical procedure.

(6) "Mechanical treatment of ailments of the human foot" means to prescribe, direct, order, or designate the use of, or manner of using an orthotic, orthotic device, orthosis, prosthetic device, prosthesis, or casting of the foot for devices or custom shoes for corrective treatment. The casting of the feet for orthoses, appliances, braces, and custom shoes may be permitted on the prescription of a practitioner licensed to do so in Indiana. It is not the intent of this article to prohibit the sale of noncustom built shoes or inserts that are commonly sold by merchants in commercial establishments.

(7) "Medical treatment of ailments of the human foot" means to prescribe, direct, order, or designate the use of, or manner of using, a drug, medicine, or treatment by spoken or written words or other means, except for the systematic or regular, continuous, long term treatment of systemic diseases affecting the human foot and the administration of general anesthesia.

(8) "Surgical treatment of ailments of the human foot" means the incision, excision, or disarticulation of parts of the foot and related structures to treat a disease, deformity, or ailment of the foot, excluding the amputation of an entire foot. A podiatrist may disarticulate an entire toe if performed according to IC 25-29-1-16.

(Board of Podiatric Medicine; 845 IAC 1-1-1; filed Apr 12, 1984, 8:28 a.m.: 7 IR 1529; filed Aug 5, 1987, 4:30 p.m.: 10 IR 2723; filed Dec 8, 1994, 5:08 p.m.: 18 IR 1281; readopted filed Jun 13, 2001, 11:45 a.m.: 24 IR 3823; readopted filed Jul 19, 2007, 12:55 p.m.: 20070808-IR-845070056RFA; readopted filed Nov 25, 2013, 9:19 a.m.: 20131225-IR-845130275RFA) NOTE: Transferred from the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana (844 IAC 8-1-1) to the Board of Podiatric Medicine (845 IAC 1-1-1) by P.L.33-1993, SECTION 76, effective July 1, 1993.