This document was approved and published when the U.S. TAG for TC 121 was held by ASTM, but it is now an AAMI standard. The original formatting has been maintained, so there are some variations from the typical AAMI style.

This part of ISO 10079 specifies minimum safety and performance requirements for medical and surgical suction equipment (see Figure 1) for health care facilities such as hospitals, for domiciliary care of patients and for field and transport use.

Although such equipment may be driven by centrally powered piped vacuum systems, compressed gases and electricity, or be manually powered for a variety of applications, this part of ISO 10079 addresses only mains electricity- and battery-powered suction equipment.