BS EN ISO 10079-4:2021

• 11.040.10 Anaesthetic, respiratory and reanimation equipment

This document specifies general requirements for medical suction equipment that are common to all parts of the ISO 10079 series .

This document is not applicable to the following:

1. end-pieces such as suction catheters, drains, curettes, Yankauer suckers and suction tips;

2. syringes;

3. dental suction equipment;

4. anaesthetic gas scavenging systems;

5. laboratory suction;

6. autotransfusion systems;

7. mucus extractors including neonatal mucus extractors;

8. suction equipment where the collection container is downstream of the vacuum pump;

9. ventouse (obstetric) equipment;

10. suction equipment marked for endoscopic use only; and

11. plume evacuation systems.