(a) Identification.
         A tracheobronchial suction catheter is a device used to aspirate liquids or semisolids from a patient's upper airway.
     
    
        
        (b) Classification.
         Class 1 (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of  part 807 of this chapter subject to  § 868.9.
     
    
        
            Code of Federal Regulations
        
        [47 FR 31142, July 16, 1982, as amended at 65 FR 2314, Jan. 14, 2000]