21 CFR § 868.1930 - Stethoscope head.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t21/s868.1930"
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title: "21 CFR § 868.1930 - Stethoscope head."
title_number: 21
title_name: "Food and Drugs"
section_number: "868.1930"
section_name: "Stethoscope head."
chapter_name: "FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "H"
subchapter_name: "MEDICAL DEVICES"
part_number: "868"
part_name: "ANESTHESIOLOGY DEVICES"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 371."
regulatory_source: "47 FR 31142, July 16, 1982, unless otherwise noted."
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# 868.1930 Stethoscope head.

(a) *Identification.* A stethoscope head is a weighted chest piece used during anesthesia to listen to a patient's heart, breath, and other physiological sounds.

(b) *Classification.* Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 868.9.

[47 FR 31142, July 16, 1982, as amended at 54 FR 25048, June 12, 1989; 66 FR 38793, July 25, 2001]