DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR

Classification Context

Section:

HUMAN NECESSITIES

Class:

MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

Subclass:

DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR

Scope Notes

Glossary: Media Solid, liquid, or gaseous substances or devices (e.g., medicine, food, in vivo testing material, catheters) which are either used by or within human bodies for medical or physical purposes, components of or substances naturally within human bodies (e.g., artificial heart, blood, insulin), or bodily discharge or waste created by human bodies or medical processes taking place within human bodies (e.g., urine). | Limiting references: Applications or methods that use specific materials, compositions, or single compounds for the preservation of human bodies or for the preservation of living parts of human bodies Devices or methods for handling cosmetic or toilet substances Surgical introduction or removal of body parts or their substitutes Devices specially adapted for taking blood samples Devices specially adapted for vivisection or autopsy Devices or methods for introducing solid, liquid, or gaseous remedies or other materials into or onto the bodies of animals Prostheses implantable into a human body Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form Chemical aspects of bandages, dressings, absorbent pads, or other surgical articles placed upon into human body Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents | Application references: Prostheses implantable into human blood vessels Means for inserting tampons Means for withdrawing tampons Absorbent pads having means integral therewith for supplying media to the absorbent material Devices for orally administering food or medication Containers for collecting, storing or administering blood, plasma or medical fluids

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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
• A61M 11/00 Sprayers or atomisers specially adapted for therapeutic purposes
• 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; Tracheal tubes
• A61M 19/00 Devices for local anaesthesia; Devices for hypothermia
• 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 25/00 Catheters; Hollow probes
• A61M 27/00 Drainage appliances for wounds, or the like
• A61M 29/00 Dilators with or without means for introducing media, e.g. remedies
• A61M 3/00 Medical syringes, e.g. enemata; Irrigators
• A61M 31/00 Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body
• A61M 35/00 Devices for applying media, e.g. remedies, on the human body
• A61M 36/00 Applying radioactive material to the body
• A61M 37/00 Other apparatus for introducing media into the body; Percutany, i.e. introducing medicines into the body by diffusion through the skin
• A61M 39/00 Tubes, tube connectors, tube couplings, valves, access sites or the like, specially adapted for medical use
• A61M 5/00 Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way; Accessories therefor, e.g. filling or cleaning devices, arm rests
• A61M 60/00 Blood pumps; Devices for mechanical circulatory actuation; Balloon pumps for circulatory assistance
• A61M 9/00 Baths for subaquatic intestinal cleaning
• A61M 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass