ISO DIS 19223

Description / Abstract: This document establishes a vocabulary of terms and semantics for all fields of respiratory care involving mechanical ventilation, such as intensive-care ventilation, anaesthesia ventilation, emergency and transport ventilation and home-care ventilation, including sleep-apnoea breathing therapy-equipment. It can be used:

—in lung ventilator and breathing therapy device standards

—in health informatics standards

—for labelling on medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems

—in medical electrical equipment and medical electrical system instructions for use and accompanying documents

—for medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems interoperability

—in electronic health records.

This document may also be used for those accessories intended by their manufacturer to be connected to a ventilator breathing system, or to a ventilator, where the characteristics of those accessories can affect the basic safety or essential performance of the ventilator and ventilator breathing system.

NOTE This vocabulary can also be used for other applications involving lung ventilation, including research, description of critical events, forensic analysis and adverse event (vigilance) reporting systems.

This edition of this document does not specify terms specific to breathing therapy equipment, or to physiologic closed-loop ventilation, high-frequency ventilation or negative-pressure ventilation, nor to respiratory support using liquid ventilation or extra-corporeal gas exchange, or oxygen except where it has been considered necessary to establish boundaries between bordering concepts.