868.5430—Gas-scavenging apparatus.
(a) Identification.
A gas-scavenging apparatus is a device intended to collect excess anesthetic, analgesic, or trace gases or vapors from a patient's breathing system, ventilator, or extracorporeal pump-oxygenator, and to conduct these gases out of the area by means of an exhaust system.
(b) Classification.
Class II (performance standards).