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Scope

Standardisation of the particular requirements for basic safety and essential performance of medical devices and their accessories that connect to or are inserted into the airways of patients, including those devices that provide the interface between the patient and atmosphere or gas from a supply device.

Examples include tracheal and tracheostomy tubes, supralaryngeal and oropharyngeal airways, laryngoscopes, connectors, breathing system tubing, respiratory therapy tubing, nebulizers, breathing filters, suction catheters, fire-activated oxygen shut off devices.

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Sustainable Development Goals

This committee contributes with 29 standards to the following Sustainable Development Goal:

22

Published ISO standards *

7

ISO standards under development *

21
Participating members
13
Observing members

* number includes updates

Liaison Committees to ISO/TC 121/SC 2

The committees below can access the documents of ISO/TC 121/SC 2:

 

Liaison Committees from ISO/TC 121/SC 2

ISO/TC 121/SC 2 can access the documents of the committees below:


* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

ISO/TC 121/SC 2 - Secretariat

ANSI (United States)

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
901 N. Glebe Road, Suite 300
Arlington 22203 VA
United States

Tel: +1 703 525 48 90
Fax: +1 703 276 07 93