[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 8]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR880.2720]

[Page 385]
 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 880--GENERAL HOSPITAL AND PERSONAL USE DEVICES--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart C--General Hospital and Personal Use Monitoring Devices
 
Sec. 880.2720  Patient scale.

    (a) Identification. A patient scale is a device intended for medical 
purposes that is used to measure the weight of a patient who cannot 
stand on a scale. This generic device includes devices placed under a 
bed or chair to weigh both the support and the patient, devices where 
the patient is lifted by a sling from a bed to be weighed, and devices 
where the patient is placed on the scale platform to be weighed. The 
device may be mechanical, battery powered, or AC-powered and may include 
transducers, electronic signal amplification, conditioning and display 
equipment.
    (b) Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt 
from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of 
this chapter subject to the limitations in Sec. 880.9.

[45 FR 69682-69737, Oct. 21, l980, as amended at 61 FR 1123, Jan. 16, 
1996; 66 FR 38803, July 25, 2001]