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title: "21 CFR §868.2480"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-868.2480"

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: "868.2480"

section_subject: "Cutaneous carbon dioxide (PcCO2) monitor."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 868.2480"

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 cutaneous carbon dioxide (PcCO2) monitor is a noninvasive heated sensor and a pH-sensitive glass electrode placed on a patient's skin, which is intended to monitor relative changes in a hemodynamically stable patient's cutaneous carbon dioxide tension as an adjunct to arterial carbon dioxide tension measurement.

(b)Classification. Class II (special controls). The special control for this device is FDA's “Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Cutaneous Carbon Dioxide (PcCO2) and Oxygen (PcO2) Monitors; Guidance for Industry and FDA.” See § 868.1(e) for the availability of this guidance document.

§868.2480 - Cutaneous carbon dioxide (PcCO2) monitor.