CAN/CSA-Z5359:16 (ISO 5359:2014, MOD)

This is the third edition of CAN/CSA-Z5359, Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment — Low-pressure hose assemblies for use with medical gases, medical vacuum, medical support gases, and anaesthetic gas scavenging systems, which is an adoption, with Canadian deviations, of ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Standard 5359 (fourth edition, 2014-10-01) titled Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment — Low-pressure hose assemblies for use with medical gases. It supersedes the previous edition, published in 2010 as CAN/CSA-Z5359, Low-pressure hose assemblies for use with medical gases (adopted ISO 5359:2008). For brevity, this Standard will be referred to as “CAN/CSA-Z5359” throughout. In this third edition, the title has been modified to reflect the application of the Standard in Canada. In Canada, low-pressure hose assemblies are classified by Health Canada as Class II Medical Devices. This Standard was reviewed for Canadian adoption by the CSA Subcommittee on Medical Gas Systems, under the jurisdiction of the CSA Technical Committee on Perioperative Safety and the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Health Care Technology & Systems, and has been formally approved by the Technical Committee. This Standard has been approved as a National Standard of Canada by the Standards Council of Canada.