Product Information

Life-SupportPolicy

General policy	American Power Conversion (APC) does not recommend the use of any
	of its products in the following situations:
	• In life-supportapplications where failure or malfunction of the
	APC product can be reasonably expected to cause failure of the
	life-supportdevice or to affect significantly its safety or
	effectiveness.
	• In direct patient care.
	APC will not knowingly sell its products for use in such applications
	unless it receives in writing assurances satisfactory to APC that (a) the
	risks of injury or damage have been minimized, (b) the customer
	assumes all such risks, and (c) the liability of American Power
	Conversion is adequately protected under the circumstances.
Examples of life-	The term life-support device includes but is not limited to neonatal
support devices	oxygen analyzers, nerve stimulators (whether used for anesthesia, pain
	relief, or other purposes), autotransfusion devices, blood pumps,
	defibrillators, arrhythmia detectors and alarms, pacemakers,
	hemodialysis systems, peritoneal dialysis systems, neonatal ventilator
	incubators, ventilators (for adults or infants), anesthesia ventilators,
	infusion pumps, and any other devices designated as “critical” by the
	U.S. FDA.
	Hospital-gradewiring devices and leakage current protection may be
	ordered as options on many APC UPS systems.APC does not claim that
	units with these modifications are certified or listed as hospital-gradeby
	APC or any other organization. Therefore these units do not meet the
	requirements for use in direct patient care.

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