New Standard from Last Update.

1. SCOPE

This Indian Standard specifies constructional, safety and performance requirements for pneumatic tourniquet equipment. It covers manually inflated tourniquets, such as those provided with rubber bulbs or piston pumps. It also covers powered tourniquets, such as those provided with an integral source of compressed or liquefied gas or a connection to an external supply of compressed gas, either from a cylinder or from a piped medical gas supply in a hospital.

It includes fully automatic tourniquet equipment which inflates the cuff to a set pressure and thereafter compensates for pressure losses, semiautomatic tourniquet equipment that inflates the cuff to a set pressure but does not compensate for subsequent pressure losses, and non-automatic tourniquet equipment. It does not cover tourniquet equipment which includes an integral electrically driven air pump.

2. REFERENCES

The standards given below contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provision of this standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreement based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of these standards:

IS 3624 : 1987 Specification for pressure and vacuum gauges (second revision)

IS 6901 : 2018/ISO 2503 : 2009 Gas welding equipment - Pressure regulators and pressure regulators with flow metering devices for gas cylinders used in welding, cutting and allied processes up to 300 bar (30 MPa) (third revision)

IS 17812 (Part 1) : 2022/ISO 9170-1 : 2017 Terminal units for medical gas pipeline systems: Part 1 Terminal units for use with compressed medical gases and vacuum (first revision)