---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 868.5470"
title: "21"
number: "868.5470"
heading: "Hyperbaric chamber."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/868.5470"
---

# §868.5470. Hyperbaric chamber.

- (a) **Identification.** A hyperbaric chamber is a device that is intended to increase the environmental oxygen pressure to promote the movement of oxygen from the environment to a patient's tissue by means of pressurization that is greater than atmospheric pressure. This device does not include topical oxygen chambers for extremities ([§ 878.5650](/cfr/21/878.5650.md)).
- (b) **Classification.** Class II (performance standards).

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 47 FR 31142, July 16, 1982, unless otherwise noted.