BS 5724-2.28(1990) : 1990

Covers safety requirements for electrically-powered medical SUCTION EQUIPMENT. Excludes central supply systems operated from vacuum and compressed air generators, pipeline systems of vehicles and buildings, and wall connectors, suction catheters and tubing, drains, curettes and suctions tips, syringes, dental SUCTION EQUIPMENT, anaesthetic gas scavenging systems, laboratory SUCTION EQUIPMENT, autotransfusion systems, passive urinary drainage, closed systems for wound drainage, gravity gastric drainage, orally-operated mucus extractors, peristaltic pumps where the COLLECTION VESSEL is placed after the pump, SUCTION EQUIPMENT intended and labelled only for endoscopic aspiration, and SUCTION EQUIPMENT intended only for use with a permanent tracheostomy.