Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 16, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Feb 03, 2025
§ 868.5720 - Bronchial tube.

(a) Identification. A bronchial tube is a device used to differentially intubate a patient's bronchus (one of the two main branches of the trachea leading directly to the lung) in order to isolate a portion of lung distal to the tube.

(b) Classification. Class II (performance standards).

authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360
source: 47 FR 31142, July 16, 1982, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 868.5720