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Alaska Statutes.

Title 8. Business and Professions

Chapter 65. Direct-Entry Midwives

Section 140. Required Practices.

AS 08.65.140. Required Practices.

(a) Except as provided in (e) of this section, a certified direct-entry midwife may not assume the care or delivery of a client unless the certified direct-entry midwife has recommended that the client undergo a physical examination performed by a physician, physician assistant, advanced nurse practitioner, or certified nurse midwife, who is licensed in this state.

(b) A certified direct-entry midwife shall inform a woman seeking home birth of the possible risks of home birth and shall obtain a signed informed consent, including the recommendation for a physical examination required under (a) of this section, from the woman before the onset of labor. The consent shall be maintained by the certified direct-entry midwives as part of the woman's record. A certified direct-entry midwife shall accept full legal responsibility for the direct-entry midwife's acts or omissions.

(c) A certified direct-entry midwife shall comply with the requirements of AS 18.15.150 concerning taking of blood samples, AS 18.15.200 concerning screening of phenylketonuria (PKU), AS 18.50.160 concerning birth registration, AS 18.50.230 concerning registration of deaths, AS 18.50.240 concerning fetal death registration, and regulations adopted by the Department of Health and Social Services concerning prophylactic treatment of the eyes of newborn infants.

(d) A certified direct-entry midwife may not knowingly deliver a woman who

(1) has a history of thrombophlebitis or pulmonary embolism;

(2) has gestational diabetes, diabetes, hypertension, Rh disease with positive titer, active tuberculosis, active syphilis, active gonorrhea, epilepsy, heart disease, or kidney disease;

(3) contracts genital herpes simplex in the first trimester of pregnancy or has active genital herpes in the last two weeks of pregnancy;

(4) has severe psychiatric illness;

(5) inappropriately uses controlled substances, including those obtained by prescription;

(6) has multiple gestation;

(7) has a fetus of less than 37 weeks gestation at the onset of labor;

(8) has a gestation of more than 42 weeks by dates and examination;

(9) has a fetus in any presentation other than vertex at the onset of labor;

(10) is a primigravida with an unengaged fetal head in active labor, or any woman who has rupture of membranes with unengaged fetal head, with or without labor;

(11) has a fetus with suspected or diagnosed congenital anomalies that may require immediate medical intervention;

(12) has pre-eclampsia or eclampsia;

(13) has bleeding with evidence of placenta previa;

(14) any condition determined by the board to be of high risk to the pregnant woman and newborn;

(15) has had a previous caesarian delivery or other uterine surgery;

(16) experienced the rupture of membranes at least 24 hours before the onset of labor; or

(17) is less than 16 years of age at the time of delivery.

(e) Notwithstanding (d) of this section, a certified direct-entry midwife may deliver a woman with any of the complications or conditions listed in (d)(1) - (17) of this section if

(1) the delivery is a verifiable emergency; and

(2) a physician or certified nurse midwife is not available in the geographic vicinity.

(f) A certified direct-entry midwife may not attempt to correct fetal presentation by external or internal inversion unless

(1) there is a verifiable emergency; and

(2) a physician or certified nurse midwife is not available in the geographic vicinity.

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Last modified 9/3/2005