Multi-part Document
BS EN 60601 - Medical electrical equipment

This is a multi-part document divided into the following parts:

• Part 1 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for safety
• Part 1-1 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for safety. Collateral standard. Safety requirements for medical electrical systems
• Part 1-2 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for safety. Collateral standard. Electromagnetic compatibility. Requirements and tests
• Part 1-3 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for safety. Collateral standard. General requirements for radiation protection in diagnostic X-ray equipment
• Part 1-4 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for safety. Collateral standard. General requirements for programmable electrical medical systems
• Part 1-6 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for safety. Collateral standard. Usability
• Part 1-8 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for safety. Collateral standard. General requirements, tests and guidance for alarm systems in medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems
• Part 1-9 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for basic safety and essential performance. Collateral Standard: Requirements for environmentally conscious design
• Part 1-10 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for basic safety and essential performance. Collateral Standard: Requirements for the development of physiologic closed-loop controllers
• Part 1-11 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for basic safety and essential performance. Collateral standard. Requirements for medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems used in the home healthcare environment
• Part 1-12 Medical electrical equipment. General requirements for basic safety and essential performance. Collateral Standard: Requirements for medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems intended for use in the emergency medical services environment
• Part 2 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Revised and additional text
• Part 2-1 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the safety of electron accelerators in the range 1 MeV to 50 MeV
• Part 2-2 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for high frequency surgical equipment
• Part 2-3 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for short-wave therapy equipment
• Part 2-4 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of cardiac defibrillators
• Part 2-5 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of ultrasonic physiotherapy equipment
• Part 2-6 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of microwave therapy equipment
• Part 2-7 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for high voltage generators of diagnostic X-ray generators
• Part 2-8 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for therapeutic X-ray equipment operating in the range 10 kV to 1 MV
• Part 2-9 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for patient contact dosemeters used in radiotherapy with electrically connected radiation detectors
• Part 2-10 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the safety of nerve and muscle stimulators
• Part 2-11 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the safety. Specification for gamma beam therapy equipment
• Part 2-12 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the safety of lung ventilators. Critical care ventilators
• Part 2-13 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the safety and essential performance of anaesthetic systems
• Part 2-16 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of haemodialysis, haemodiafiltration and haemofiltration equipment
• Part 2-17 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for remote-controlled automatically-driven gamma-ray afterloading equipment
• Part 2-18 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for endoscopic equipment. Section 2.18: Specification for endoscopic equipment
• Part 2-19 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for baby incubators
• Part 2-20 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for transport incubators
• Part 2-21 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for infant radiant warmers
• Part 2-22 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for diagnostic and therapeutic laser equipment
• Part 2-23 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the safety of transcutaneous partial pressure monitoring equipment
• Part 2-24 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of infusion pumps and controllers
• Part 2-25 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for electrocardiographs
• Part 2-26 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for electroencephalographs
• Part 2-27 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for electrocardiographic monitoring equipment
• Part 2-28 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for X-ray source assemblies and X-ray tube assemblies for medical diagnosis
• Part 2-29 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for radiotherapy simulators
• Part 2-30 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for automatic cycling indirect blood pressure monitoring equipment
• Part 2-31 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for external cardiac pacemakers with internal power source
• Part 2-32 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for associated equipment of X-ray equipment
• Part 2-33 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for magnetic resonance equipment for medical diagnosis
• Part 2-34 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for direct blood-pressure monitoring equipment
• Part 2-35 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for blankets, pads and mattresses intended for heating in medical use
• Part 2-36 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for equipment for extra-corporeally induced lithotripsy
• Part 2-37 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the safety of ultrasonic diagnostic and monitoring equipment
• Part 2-38 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of electrically operated hospital beds
• Part 2-39 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for peritoneal dialysis equipment
• Part 2-40 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for electromyographs and evoked response equipment
• Part 2-41 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of surgical luminaires and luminaires for diagnosis
• Part 2-43 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of X-ray equipment for interventional procedures
• Part 2-44 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of X-ray equipment for computed tomography
• Part 2-45 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for mammographic X-ray equipment and mammographic stereotactic devices
• Part 2-46 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Specification for operating tables
• Part 2-47 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety, including essential performance, of ambulatory electrocardiographic systems
• Part 2-49 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of multifunction patient monitoring equipment
• Part 2-50 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for the safety of infant phototherapy equipment
• Part 2-51 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for safety. Particular requirements for safety, including essential performance, of recording and analysing single channel and multichannel electrocardiographs
• Part 2-52 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for basic safety and essential performance of medical beds
• Part 2-54 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of X-ray equipment for radiography and radioscopy
• Part 2-57 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of non-laser light source equipment intended for therapeutic, diagnostic, monitoring and cosmetic/aesthetic use
• Part 2-62 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of high intensity therapeutic ultrasound (HITU) equipment
• Part 2-63 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of dental extra-oral X-ray equipment
• Part 2-64 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of light ion beam medical electrical equipment
• Part 2-65 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of dental intra-oral X-ray equipment
• Part 2-66 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of hearing instruments and hearing instrument systems
• Part 2-68 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of X-ray-based image-guided radiotherapy equipment for use with electron accelerators, light ion beam therapy equipment and radionuclide beam therapy equipment
• Part 3-1 Medical electrical equipment. Particular requirements for performance. Specification for transcutaneous oxygen and carbon dioxide partial pressure monitoring equipment