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title: "21 CFR §868.2375"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-868.2375"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "8"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "H"

subchapter_subject: "MEDICAL DEVICES"

part_code: "868"

part_subject: "ANESTHESIOLOGY DEVICES"

subpart_code: "C"

subpart_subject: "Monitoring Devices"

section_number: "868.2375"

section_subject: "Breathing frequency monitor."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 868.2375"

title_name: "Title 21"

title_subject: "Food and Drugs"

parts_covered: "Parts 800 to 1299"

revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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(a)Identification. A breathing (ventilatory) frequency monitor is a device intended to measure or monitor a patient's respiratory rate. The device may provide an audible or visible alarm when the respiratory rate, averaged over time, is outside operator settable alarm limits. This device does not include the apnea monitor classified in § 868.2377.

(b)Classification. Class II (performance standards).

§868.2375 - Breathing frequency monitor.