This document specifies general requirements for medical suction equipment that are common to all parts of the ISO 10079 series.

This document is not applicable to the following:

a) end-pieces such as suction catheters, drains, curettes, Yankauer suckers and suction tips;

b) syringes;

c) dental suction equipment;

d) anaesthetic gas scavenging systems;

e) laboratory suction;

f) autotransfusion systems;

g) mucus extractors including neonatal mucus extractors;

h) suction equipment where the collection container is downstream of the vacuum pump;

i) ventouse (obstetric) equipment;

j) suction equipment marked for endoscopic use only; and

k) plume evacuation systems.