( Superseding IS 7583 : 1991 )

New Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 2/Sec 2) which is identical with IEC 60601-2-2 : 2017 ‘Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-2: Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of high frequency surgical equipment and high frequency surgical accessories’ issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Electromedical, Diagnostic, Imaging and Radiotherapy Equipment Sectional Committee and approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

This standard was originally published in 1974 and revised in 1991 as IS 7583 : 1991 ‘Medical electrical equipment - High frequency surgical equipment - Specification (first revision) based on IEC 601-2-2 (1982) ‘Medical electrical equipment — Part 2: Particular requirements for the basic safety high frequency surgical equipment’. On revision of IEC 601-2-2 : 1982 as IEC 60601-2-2 : 2017, this revision has been taken up for harmonizing it with latest International Standard. The document will be published as one of the Indian Standard in the series of IS 13450 to maintain similarity. On publication, this Indian Standard supersedes IS 7583 : 1991.

The text of IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminologies and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in the Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker, while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.