As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:
(a) "Anesthetic" means a drug, gas or other agent used to abolish the sensation of pain. There are three (3) classifications as follows:
(1) “General anesthetic" means an anesthetic agent which produces a temporary loss of consciousness by the administration of a gas; oral, intramuscular and intravenous drugs; or a combination of these methods.
(2) "Local anesthetic" means a drug whose action is limited to an area of the body around the site of its application.
(3) "Spinal", "epidural" or"caudal anesthetic" means the injection of an appropriate local type of anesthetic into the spinal canal, epidural area, to produce a local loss of sensitivity to the body areas at and below the sensory nerve distribution at the level of injection.
(b) "Anesthesia" means a state of loss of feeling or sensation and is normally used to denote the loss of sensation to pain purposely induced by the use of a specific gas or drug to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedure.
(c) "Anesthesiologist" means a physician specializing in the field of anesthesiology, who may or may not be a diplomat of his specialty board.
(d) "Anesthetist" means a person qualified to administer anesthetic. In common usage, the term applies to nurses and lay persons who have had special training and experience under medical auspices in the administration of anesthetics.
(e) "Conception" means the union of the male sperm and the female ovum.
(f) "Department" means the Department of Public Safety of the City of Bedford, Ohio.
(g) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Public Safety/City Manager of the City of Bedford, Ohio.
(h) "Freestanding surgical outpatient facility" or "facility" means an establishment offering any type of surgical procedures and related care which in the opinion of the attending physician can be performed safely without requiring inpatient overnight hospital care and exclusive of such surgical and related care as licensed physicians ordinarily may elect to perform in their private offices.
(i) "Health" means the physical or mental risk of substantial or irreversible impairment of a major bodily function based upon the physician's good faith and clinical judgment.
(j) "Hospital" means a general hospital or specialized hospital devoted to gynecology or obstetrics which is accredited by the American College of Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, the American Hospital Association, or the American Medical Association, or which is accredited by the Office of Hospital Affairs of the American Osteopathic Association.
(k) "Nurse" means a person currently licensed or registered as such by the State of Ohio.
(l) "Physician" means a person currently licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy by the State of Ohio.
(m) "Pregnancy termination" means abortion, which is the purposeful termination of human pregnancy by any person, including the pregnant woman herself, with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead, unborn child.
(n) "Qualified obstetrician" means:
(1) A licensed physician who is a diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, or who submits evidence to the Director that his/her training and expertise qualify him/her for admission to the examination by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology; or
(2) A licensed physician who has the rank of associate attending obstetrician or higher at a voluntary or municipal hospital approved for residency training in obstetrics by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association; or
(3) A licensed physician who has the rank of assistant professor of obstetrics or gynecology or higher in a medical school approved by the Ohio Board of Regents and the State Medical Board of Ohio; or
(4) A doctor of osteopathy who holds a license to practice medicine in the State and who is certified by the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or who submits evidence to the Board that his/her training and experience qualify him/her for admission to the examination by the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or who submits evidence of completion of a residency in obstetrics and gynecology.
(o) "Registered professional nurse" means a person who is registered as a registered professional nurse by the State of Ohio pursuant to Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 4723.
(p) "Surgery" means the treatment of human beings by a physician, by the use of one or more of the following procedures:
(1) Cutting into any part of the body by surgical scalpel, electrocautery or other means for diagnosis or the removal or repair of diseased or damaged tissue, organs, tumors or foreign bodies.
(2) Reduction of fractures or dislocations of a bone, joint or bony structure.
(3) Repair of malformations or body defects resulting from injury, birth defects or other causes that require cutting and manipulation or suture.
(4) Instrumentation of the uterine cavity including the procedure commonly known as dilation.
(5) Any instrumentation of or injection of any substance into the uterine cavity of a woman for the purpose of terminating a pregnancy.
(6) Human sterilization procedures.
(7) Endoscopic procedures.
(q) "Unborn child" for the purpose of this chapter, shall include the unborn offspring of human beings from the time of conception, through pregnancy, and until live birth, including human conception, fertilized ovum or zygote, embryo and fetus.
(r) "Viable" means capable of surviving outside the womb of the mother upon premature birth, whether resulting from natural causes or abortion, or otherwise, irrespective of whether that capacity exists in whole or in part due to the provision or availability of natural or artificial life-support systems.
(s) "Freestanding" means that an entity is administratively and fiscally independent of an inpatient institution such as a hospital or long term care facility or of any outpatient facility which is allied with a hospital or long term care facility.
(t) "Outpatient Medical Facility" means any physical or psychiatric care facility which is not a hospital or long term care facility and within which ambulatory surgical services or services that do not require overnight hospital care are performed. The term does not mean a facility where licensed physicians elect to perform surgical or related care in their private offices.