prEN ISO 18730

Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment - Waste volatile anaesthetic agent capture systems prEN ISO 18730

Scope

This document specifies requirements for waste volatile anaesthetic agent capture systems that may or may not include the recycling of the collected volatile anaesthetic agent for reuse.
NOTE 1: Waste volatile agent capture systems, that are part of a medical gas pipeline system as specified in ISO 7396-1 [4], are outside the scope of this document.
NOTE 2: Nitrous oxide is not considered to be a volatile anaesthetic agent.