CSA ISO 5361:24

CSA Preface This is the third edition of CSA ISO 5361, Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment — Tracheal tubes and connectors, which is an adoption without modification of the identically titled ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Standard 5361 (fourth edition, 2023-01; corrected version: 2023-11). It supersedes the previous edition, published in 2018 as CAN/CSA-ISO 5361 (adopted ISO 5361:2016). For brevity, this Standard will be referred to as "CSA ISO 5361" throughout. CSA Group acknowledges that the adoption of this Standard was made possible, in part, by the financial support of the governments of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, as administered by Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC).This Standard was reviewed for Canadian adoption by the CSA Technical Committee on Perioperative Safety, under the jurisdiction of the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Health and Well-being, and has been formally approved by the Technical Committee. This Standard has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group. Scope This document provides specific requirements for the basic safety and essential performance for oro-tracheal and naso-tracheal tubes and tracheal tube connectors, tracheal tubes with walls reinforced with metal or plastic, tracheal tubes with shoulders, tapered tracheal tubes, tracheal tubes with means for suctioning, monitoring or delivery of drugs or other gases, and the many other types of tracheal tubes devised for specialized applications. Tracheobronchial (including endobronchial) tubes (see ISO 16628), tracheostomy tubes (see ISO 5366), and supralaryngeal airways (see ISO 11712) are excluded from the scope of this document. Tracheal tubes intended for use with flammable anaesthetic gases or agents, lasers, or electrosurgical equipment are outside the scope of this document. NOTE 1 There is guidance or rationale for this clause contained in Annex A.2. NOTE 2 ISO 11990-1, ISO 11990-2, and ISO 14408 deal with laser surgery of the airway.