Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments (for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40)

Introduced: January 2016

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments

CPC: Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments (for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Containers, covers, furniture or holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments, e.g. sterile covers > Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments

CPC:

Containers, covers, furniture or holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments, e.g. sterile covers (drapes specially adapted for instruments A61B46/10) > Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments (for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40)

CPC subdivides this area 4x more granularly than IPC with 13 additional codes.

13 codes are CPC-only extensions.

Note: 12 CPC extensions are marked as secondary classification only.

IPC defines codes here since 2016.

Child Classifications

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A61B 2050/3004 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3005 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3006 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3007 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3008 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3009 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/301 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3011 2nd only +1 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3013 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3014 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/3015 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61B 2050/314 2nd only +2 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61B 50/3001 +1 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61B 50/31 Carrying cases or bags, e.g. doctors' bags since 2016 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61B 50/33 Trays since 2016 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61B 50/34 Baskets since 2016 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61B 50/36 for collecting or disposing of used articles since 2016 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC