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[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 8]
[Revised as of April 1, 2012]
[CITE: 21CFR868.5160]
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TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
SUBCHAPTER H--MEDICAL DEVICES

PART 868 -- ANESTHESIOLOGY DEVICES

Subpart F--Therapeutic Devices

Sec. 868.5160 Gas machine for anesthesia or analgesia.

(a)Gas machine for anesthesia --(1)Identification. A gas machine for anesthesia is a device used to administer to a patient, continuously or intermittently, a general inhalation anesthetic and to maintain a patient's ventilation. The device may include a gas flowmeter, vaporizer, ventilator, breathing circuit with bag, and emergency air supply.

(2)Classification. Class II (performance standards).

(b)Gas machine for analgesia --(1)Identification. A gas machine for analgesia is a device used to administer to a patient an analgesic agent, such as a nitrous oxide-oxygen mixture (maximum concentration of 70 percent nitrous oxide).

(2)Classification. Class II (performance standards).
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