Medical Standards

1.1 This guide is intended to assist in the identification and application of the most appropriate ASTM and associated standards for the assessment, development of specifications, and selection of medical gloves with the ultimate goal of maintaining the safety and health of healthcare...

1.1 This guide provides a consensus set of Space Flight Participant (SFP) acceptance guidelines that will serve as advice to commercial human spaceflight operators as they develop their own medical programs for suborbital flights. 1.2 Units-The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as...

1.1 This test method covers the detection of holes in medical gloves. 1.2 This test method is limited to the detection of holes that allow water leakage under the conditions of the test. 1.3 The smallest hole size that will allow water leakage in a medical glove has not been...

This specification contains procedures for evaluating the performance and safety of poly(vinyl chloride) gloves for use in conducting medical examinations, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and handling contaminated medical materials. The products covered by this specification...

1.1 This specification provides certain requirements for polychloroprene rubber gloves used in conducting medical examinations and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. 1.2 This specification covers polychloroprene rubber examination gloves that fit either hand, paired gloves, and gloves by...

1.1 This practice covers a protocol for the assessment of resistance of medical glove materials to permeation by potentially hazardous cancer chemotherapy drugs under conditions of continuous contact. An assessment is made based on the permeation (breakthrough) of nine chemotherapy drugs...

This specification contains test procedures for evaluating the performance and safety of nitrile rubber gloves for use in conducting medical examinations and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The products covered by this specification include nitrile rubber gloves that fit either hand,...

1.1 The requirements in this Standard cover the individual units and equipment that operate within the context of a fundamental hospital signaling nurse call system (NCS). 1.2 A fundamental NCS provides audible and visual communication between patients and staff in a health care facility and...

2.1 This Standard establishes general requirements for human health and environmental criteria for industrial, institutional, and consumer cleaning and cleaning-related products such as but not limited to: a) Hard Surface Cleaners: 1) Bathroom cleaners (Non-Disinfecting); 2) Boat and bilge...

1.1 This practice provides guidelines for biological assessment of tissue responses to nonabsorbable for medical device implants. It assesses the effects of the material that is implanted intramuscularly or intraosseously. The experimental protocol is not designed to provide a comprehensive...

This document defines the minimum degree of purity and maximum levels of certain deleterious impurities allowable for aviator's breathing oxygen at the point of manufacture or generation. It covers gaseous, liquid, and chemically generated oxygen, and oxygen supplied by in situ concentration and in...

This practice establishes methods for testing and determination of expiration dating of medical gloves. This covers all surgeon's and examination gloves made from either synthetic or natural rubber latex. Gloves shall be tested for stability and shelf life in accordance with the test method...