DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR

Description

A61M encompasses medical devices for administering therapeutic agents, fluids, or gases into or onto the body via injection, infusion, inhalation, or topical application. It includes devices for extracting, monitoring, or transducing biological media such as blood, body fluids, or gases, as well as instruments for anesthesia delivery and sleep induction or termination. The subclass covers syringes, infusion pumps, nebulizers, catheters, dialysis equipment, and respiratory support devices, but excludes diagnostic imaging systems and pharmaceutical formulations themselves.

28 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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A61M 1/00 Suction or pumping devices for medical purposes; Devices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquids; Drainage systems (catheters A61M25/00; tube connectors, tube couplings, valves or branch units specially adapted for medical use A61M39/00; devices for taking samples of blood A61B5/15; filters implantable into blood vessels A61F2/01)
A61M 11/00 Sprayers or atomisers specially adapted for therapeutic purposes (in general B05B; )
A61M 13/00 Insufflators for therapeutic or disinfectant purposes
A61M 15/00 Inhalators
A61M 16/00 Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. ventilators (iron lungs A61H31/02); Tracheal tubes
A61M 19/00 Local anaesthesia (syringes therefor A61M5/00); Hypothermia (A61M5/42 takes precedence; cooling blood in a bypass of the arterial system A61M1/36)
A61M 21/00 Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis
A61M 2202/00 Special media to be introduced, removed or treated
A61M 2205/00 General characteristics of the apparatus
A61M 2206/00 Characteristics of a physical parameter; associated device therefor
A61M 2207/00 Methods of manufacture, assembly or production
A61M 2209/00 Ancillary equipment
A61M 2210/00 Anatomical parts of the body
A61M 2230/00 Measuring parameters of the user
A61M 2240/00 Specially adapted for neonatal use
A61M 2250/00 Specially adapted for animals
A61M 25/00 Catheters; Hollow probes (dilators A61M29/00; ; for measuring or testing A61B; )
A61M 27/00 Drainage appliance for wounds or the like ( implements for holding wound open A61B17/02 )
A61M 29/00 Dilators with or without means for introducing media, e.g. remedies
A61M 3/00 Medical syringes, e.g. enemata; Irrigators (A61M5/00 takes precedence; pistons A61M5/315)