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Secretariat: ANSI (United States)
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Chairperson (until end 2026):Dr Harvey Livingstone
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ISO Technical Programme Manager [TPM]:ISO Editorial Manager [EM]:
- Creation date: 1981
Scope
Standardisation of the particular requirements for basic safety and essential performance of medical devices and their accessories that connect to or are inserted into the airways of patients, including those devices that provide the interface between the patient and atmosphere or gas from a supply device.
Examples include tracheal and tracheostomy tubes, supralaryngeal and oropharyngeal airways, laryngoscopes, connectors, breathing system tubing, respiratory therapy tubing, nebulizers, breathing filters, suction catheters, fire-activated oxygen shut off devices.
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This committee contributes with 29 standards to the following Sustainable Development Goal:
Liaison Committees to ISO/TC 121/SC 2
The committees below can access the documents of ISO/TC 121/SC 2:
| Reference | Title | ISO/IEC |
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| ISO/TC 172/SC 9 | Laser and electro-optical systems | ISO |
Liaison Committees from ISO/TC 121/SC 2
ISO/TC 121/SC 2 can access the documents of the committees below:
| Reference | Title | ISO/IEC |
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| ISO/TC 121/SC 1 | Breathing attachments and anaesthetic machines | ISO |
| ISO/TC 121/SC 3 | Respiratory devices and related equipment used for patient care | ISO |
| ISO/TC 121/SC 4 | Vocabulary and semantics | ISO |
| ISO/TC 121/SC 6 | Medical gas supply systems | ISO |
| ISO/TC 121/SC 8 | Suction devices | ISO |
| ISO/TC 172/SC 9 | Laser and electro-optical systems | ISO |
| Date | Month | Location | TC/SC | Note |
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| 17-21 | November 2025 | Arlington (United States) | ISO/TC 121/SC 2 | * |
* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional
ISO/TC 121/SC 2 - Secretariat
ANSI (United States)
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