IS 18834 : 2024 Anaesthetic and Respiratory Equipment - Supralaryngeal Airwaysand Connectors (ISO 11712 : 2023, MOD)

ICS 11.040.10

MHD 11

(Superseding IS 3392 : 1965 &IS/ISO 11712 : 2009)

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is a modified adoption of ISO 11712 : 2023 'Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment - Supralaryngeal airways and connectors' issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Anaesthetic, Resuscitation and Allied Equipment Sectional Committee and approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

This standard supersedes IS 3392 : 1965 'Specification for anaesthetic airways' and IS/ISO 11712 : 2009 'Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment - Supralaryngeal airways and connectors'. This has been taken up to align it with latest edition of ISO 11712 : 2023 'Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment - Supralaryngeal airways and connectors'.

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

a) Wherever the words 'International Standard' appear referring to this standard, they should beread as 'Indian Standard'; and

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