---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 864.7720"
title: "21"
number: "864.7720"
heading: "Prothrombin consumption test."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/864.7720"
---

# §864.7720. Prothrombin consumption test.

- (a) **Identification.** A prothrombin consumption tests is a device that measures the patient's capacity to generate thromboplastin in the coagulation process. The test also is an indirect indicator of qualitative or quantitative platelet abnormalities. It is a screening test for thrombocytopenia (decreased number of blood platelets) and hemophilia A and B.
- (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 the limitations in [§ 864.9](/cfr/21/864.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 60625, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 84 FR 71800, Dec. 30, 2019]

### Authority

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

### Amendments

[45 FR 60625, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 84 FR 71800, Dec. 30, 2019]