EN 1789:1999/A1:2003

Medical vehicles and their equipment - Road ambulances

This European Standard specifies requirements for the design, testing, performance and equipping of road ambulances used for the transport of sick or injured persons. This standard is applicable to road ambulances capable of transporting at least one person on a stretcher. Requirements are specified for categories of road ambulances based in increasing order of the level of treatment that can be carried out. These are the patient transport ambulances (types A1, A2), the emergency ambulance (type B) and the mobile intensive care unit (type C).
This standard gives general requirements for medical devices carried in road ambulances and therein and outside hospitals and clinics in situations where the ambient conditions can differ from normal indoor conditions.

Rettungsdienstfahrzeuge und deren Ausrüstung - Krankenkraftwagen

In der ersten Zeile "Prüfmethoden" streichen und dafür das Wort "Prüfungen" einsetzen.
Den vorliegenden letzten Absatz in Abschnitt 1 streichen und folgenden Satz einsetzen:
"Diese Norm enthält allgemeine Anforderungen an Medizinprodukte (Geräte), die in Krankenkraftwagen befördert und in ihnen sowie außerhalb von Krankenhäusern und Kliniken verwendet werden, wo die Umweltbedingungen sich von üblichen Innenraumbedingungen abweichen können."

Véhicules de transport sanitaire et leurs équipements - Véhicule d'ambulances

Première modification
Sans objet pour la version française.
Deuxième modification
Sans objet pour la version française.

Medicinska vozila in njihova oprema - Reševalna vozila

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 18-Mar-2003
• Withdrawal Date: 08-May-2007
• ICS: 11.160 - First aid
• ICS: 43.160 - Special purpose vehicles
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 239 - Rescue systems
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 239 - Rescue systems
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Start Date: 09-May-2007
• Completion Date: 09-May-2007
• Directive: 93/42/EEC - Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices
• Mandate: M/023 - Standardization mandate to CEN/CENELEC concerning the development of European standards relating to medical devices
• Ref Project: SIST EN 1789:2000/A1:2003 - Medical vehicles and their equipment - Road ambulances

Relations

• Replaced By: EN 1789:2007 - Medical vehicles and their equipment - Road ambulances
• Effective Date: 22-Dec-2008
• Amends: EN 1789:1999 - Medical vehicles and their equipment - Road ambulances
• Effective Date: 22-Dec-2008

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 1789:2000/A1:2003
01-september-2003
Medicinska vozila in njihova oprema - Reševalna vozila
Medical vehicles and their equipment - Road ambulances
Rettungsdienstfahrzeuge und deren Ausrüstung - Krankenkraftwagen
Véhicules de transport sanitaire et leurs équipements - Véhicule d'ambulances
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 1789:1999/A1:2003
ICS:
11.160 3UYDSRPRþ First aid
43.160 Vozila za posebne namene Special purpose vehicles
SIST EN 1789:2000/A1:2003 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 1789:1999/A1
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2003
ICS 11.160; 43.160
English version
Medical vehicles and their equipment - Road ambulances
Véhicules de transport sanitaire et leurs équipements - Rettungsdienstfahrzeuge und deren Ausrüstung -
Véhicule d'ambulances Krankenkraftwagen
This amendment A1 modifies the European Standard EN 1789:1999; it was approved by CEN on 28 December 2002.
CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for inclusion of this
amendment into the relevant national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such
national standards may be obtained on application to the Management Centre or to any CEN member.
This amendment exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the
responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United
Kingdom.
EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION
COMITÉ EUROPÉEN DE NORMALISATION
EUROPÄISCHES KOMITEE FÜR NORMUNG
Management Centre: rue de Stassart, 36  B-1050 Brussels
© 2003 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved Ref. No. EN 1789:1999/A1:2003 E
worldwide for CEN national Members.

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EN 1789:1999/A1:2003 (E)
Foreword
This document (EN 1789:1999/A1:2003) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 239 "Rescue
Systems", the secretariat of which is held by DIN.
This Amendment to the European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of
an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by September 2003, and conflicting national standards shall be
withdrawn at the latest by September 2003.
According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following
countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Page 4
Introduction
Delete the whole introduction except the first sentence
1 Scope
Delete “test methods” in the first line and substitute the word “testing”
Delete the existing last paragraph in Clause 1 and substitute the following sentence:
“This standard gives general requirements for medical devices carried in road ambulances and used therein and
outside hospitals and clinics in situations where the ambient conditions can differ from normal indoor conditions.”
Clause 2 Normative references
Delete on page 6 the EN ISO 3785 paragraph and add the following reference instead:
ISO 3795, “Road vehicles, and tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry - Determination of burning
behaviour of interior materials”.
Page 7
3.2 Ambulance
Delete the existing text and substitute the following:
“Vehicle or craft intended to be crewed by a minimum of two appropriately trained staff for the provision of care and
transport of at least one stretchered patient.”
3.4 Net vehicle mass; unladen mass
Delete the existing definition without the Note and replace with the following:
“Net vehicle mass according to 70/156/EEC of the road ambulance including the driver taken as 75 kg and all fixed
installations.”
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EN 1789:1999/A1:2003 (E)
Page 8
4.1 General requirements
Delete the existing sentence and add the following:
“The road ambulance shall comply with the relevant regulation(s) for special use vehicles (see Footnote 1 on
page 7).”
4.2.1 Acceleration
Delete the existing text and replace with the following:
“A road ambulance loaded to permissible gross vehicle mass shall be able to accelerate for 0 km/h to 80 km/h
within 35 s.
Type B and C road ambulances loaded to permissible gross vehicles mass up to 3,5 t shall be able to accelerate
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