Filter
Top Products
Life Support Policy
As a general policy, American Power Conversion (APC) does not rec-
ommend the use of any of its products in the following situations:
• life support applications where failure or malfunction of
the APC product can be reasonably expected to cause
failure of the life support device or to signifi cantly affect
its safety or effectiveness.
• direct patient care.
APC will not knowingly sell its products for use in such applications
unless it receives in writing assurances satisfactory to APC that (a)
the risks of injury or damage have been minimized, (b) the customer
assumes all such risks, and (c) the liability of American Power Conver-
sion is adequately protected under the circumstances.
The term life support device includes but is not limited to neonatal
oxygen analyzers, nerve stimulators (whether used for anesthesia, pain
relief, or other purposes), autotransfusion devices, blood pumps, defi -
brillators, arrhythmia detectors and alarms, pacemakers, hemodialysis
systems, peritoneal dialysis systems, neonatal ventilator incubators, ven-
tilators (for both adults and infants), anesthesia ventilators, and infusion
pumps as well as any other devices designated as “critical” by the US
FDA.
Hospital grade wiring devices and leakage current protection may be
ordered as options on many APC UPS systems. APC does not claim that
units with this modifi cation are certifi ed or listed as hospital-grade by
APC or any other organization. Therefore these units do not meet the
requirements for use in direct patient care.
General policy
Examples of
life-support
devices