21 CFR 868.5160
§ 868.5160 Gas machine for anesthesia or analgesia.
United States · 21 CFR — Food and Drugs · Status: effective
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- 21 CFR 868.5160, § 868.5160 Gas machine for anesthesia or analgesia, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/89781
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(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).
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.