---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 864.6400"
title: "21"
number: "864.6400"
heading: "Hematocrit measuring device."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/864.6400"
---

# §864.6400. Hematocrit measuring device.

- (a) **Identification.** A hematocrit measuring device is a system consisting of instruments, tubes, racks, and a sealer and a holder. The device is used to measure the packed red cell volume in blood to determine whether the patient's total red cell volume is normal or abnormal. Abnormal states include anemia (an abnormally low total red cell volume) and erythrocytosis (an abnormally high total red cell mass). The packed red cell volume is produced by centrifuging a given volume of blood.
- (b) **Classification.** Class II (special controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in [subpart E of part 807](/cfr/21/part807-subpartE.md) of this chapter subject to [§ 864.9](/cfr/21/864.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 60606, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 59225, Nov. 3, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 l, 371.

### Amendments

[45 FR 60606, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 59225, Nov. 3, 1998]