IEC 60601 - Medical electrical equipment

Medical electrical equipment - basic safety and essential performance requirements.

Rodzaj
Product standards
Organizacja
IEC TC 62/SC 62A (CENELEC as EN 60601-1)
Aktualne wydanie
IEC 60601-1:2005 Ed. 3.0 + AMD1:2012 + AMD2:2020 (consolidated version Ed. 3.2, 2020-08-20, stability date 2028); EN 60601-1:2006 + A1:2013 + A2:2021
Status
current

What the standard covers

The standard specifies basic safety and essential performance requirements generally applicable to medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems. For individual equipment types it is used together with particular standards of the IEC 60601-2-x series and collateral standards IEC 60601-1-x.

The consolidated version contains three corrigenda (2006, 2007, 2022) and interpretation sheets from 2008–2021.

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