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Coordination of the establishment and maintenance of a standardized vocabulary of terms, definitions and their associated semantics for anaesthetic, respiratory care, and patient monitoring equipment and medical gas supply systems, so that they are used consistently in documents and materials developed by ISO/TC 121, Anaesthetic, respiratory care, and patient monitoring equipment and medical gas supply systems and its associated Subcommittees, Joint Working Groups and Working Groups.

These vocabularies and associated semantics can include terminology for:

  • standards development;
  • human-device interface;
  • labeling;
  • communication of health informatics data;
  • clinical safety and use.
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    Sustainable Development Goals

    This committee contributes with 7 standards to the following Sustainable Development Goal:

    4

    Published ISO standards *

    2

    ISO standards under development *

    21
    Participating members
    10
    Observing members

    * number includes updates

    Reference Title Type
    ISO/TC 121/SC 4/WG 1   Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment vocabulary Working group
    ISO/TC 121/SC 4/WG 2   High frequency and jet ventilation Working group
    ISO/TC 121/SC 4/WG 3   Respiratory care equipment Working group

    Liaison Committees to ISO/TC 121/SC 4

    The committees below can access the documents of ISO/TC 121/SC 4:

    Reference Title ISO/IEC
    ISO/TC 121/SC 2 Airway devices and related equipment ISO
    ISO/TC 121/SC 3 Respiratory devices and related equipment used for patient care ISO

     

    Liaison Committees from ISO/TC 121/SC 4

    ISO/TC 121/SC 4 can access the documents of the committees below:

    Reference Title ISO/IEC
    ISO/TC 121/SC 1 Breathing attachments and anaesthetic machines ISO
    ISO/TC 121/SC 2 Airway devices and related equipment ISO
    ISO/TC 121/SC 3 Respiratory devices and related equipment used for patient care ISO
    ISO/TC 121/SC 6 Medical gas supply systems ISO
    ISO/TC 121/SC 8 Suction devices ISO

    ISO/TC 121/SC 4 - Secretariat

    ANSI (United States)

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