---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 880.5475"
title: "21"
number: "880.5475"
heading: "Jet lavage."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/880.5475"
---

# §880.5475. Jet lavage.

- (a) **Identification.** A jet lavage is a device used to clean a wound by a pulsatile jet of sterile fluid. The device consists of the pulsing head, tubing to connect to a container of sterile fluid, and a means of propelling the fluid through the tubing, such as an electric roller pump.
- (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 [§ 880.9](/cfr/21/880.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 69682, Oct. 21, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 59229, Nov. 3, 1998]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 45 FR 69682, Oct. 21, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 69682, Oct. 21, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 59229, Nov. 3, 1998]