ISO International Standard

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:

a) end-pieces such as suction catheters, drains, curettes, Yankauer suckers and suction tips;

b) syringes;

c) dental suction equipment;

d) anaesthetic gas scavenging systems;

e) laboratory suction;

f) autotransfusion systems;

g) mucus extractors including neonatal mucus extractors;

h) suction equipment where the collection container is downstream of the vacuum pump;

i) ventouse (obstetric) equipment;

j) suction equipment marked for endoscopic use only; and

k) plume evacuation systems.