[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: 21CFR880.5500]

[Page 390]
 
                        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 F--General Hospital and Personal Use Therapeutic Devices
 
Sec. 880.5500  AC-powered patient lift.

    (a) Identification. An AC-powered lift is an electrically powered 
device either fixed or mobile, used to lift and transport patients in 
the horizontal or other required position from one place to another, as 
from a bed to a bath. The device includes straps and slings to support 
the patient.
    (b) Classification. Class II (special controls). The device is 
exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 
807 of this chapter subject to Sec. 880.9.

[45 FR 69682-69737, Oct. 21, l980, as amended at 63 FR 59229, Nov. 3, 
1998]