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DIFF Subgroup
A61N 1/36

for stimulation

Introduced: September 1968

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: for stimulation, e.g. heart pace-makers

CPC: for stimulation

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Electrotherapy; Circuits therefor > Applying electric currents by contact electrodes > alternating or intermittent currents > for stimulation, e.g. heart pace-makers

CPC:

Electrotherapy; Circuits therefor (A61N2/00 takes precedence; irradiation apparatus A61N5/00) > Applying electric currents by contact electrodes > alternating or intermittent currents > for stimulation

CPC subdivides this area 6x more granularly than IPC with 10 additional codes.

10 codes are CPC-only extensions.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 1985.

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