EN 60601-2-17:2004

Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-17: Particular requirements for the safety of automatically-controlled brachytherapy afterloading equipment

The use of afterloading equipment for brachytherapy purposes may expose patients to danger if the equipment fails to deliver the required dose to the patient, or if the equipment design does not satisfy standards of electrical and mechanical safety. The equipment may also cause danger to persons in the vicinity if the equipment itself fails to contain the radioactive source(s) adequately within the storage container(s) and/or if there are inadequacies in the design of the treatment room. This Particular Standard establishes requirements to be complied with by manufacturers in the design and construction of afterloading equipment for use in temporary brachytherapy procedures. Its purpose is to identify those features of design that are regarded, at the present time, as essential for the safe operation of such equipment. It places limits on the degradation of equipment performance beyond which it can be presumed that a fault condition exists and where an interlock then operates to return the radioactive source(s) to the storage container(s) and afterwards to prevent continued operation of the equipment.

Medizinische elektrische Geräte - Teil 2-17: Besondere Festlegungen für die Sicherheit ferngesteuerter, automatisch betriebener Afterloading-Geräte für die Brachytherapie

Appareils électromédicaux - Partie 2-17: Règles particulières de sécurité des appareils projecteurs de brachythérapie avec contrôles automatiques

The use of afterloading equipment for brachytherapy purposes may expose patients to danger if the equipment fails to deliver the required dose to the patient, or if the equipment design does not satisfy standards of electrical and mechanical safety. The equipment may also cause danger to persons in the vicinity if the equipment itself fails to contain the radioactive source(s) adequately within the storage container(s) and/or if there are inadequacies in the design of the treatment room. This Particular Standard establishes requirements to be complied with by manufacturers in the design and construction of afterloading equipment for use in temporary brachytherapy procedures. Its purpose is to identify those features of design that are regarded, at the present time, as essential for the safe operation of such equipment. It places limits on the degradation of equipment performance beyond which it can be presumed that a fault condition exists and where an interlock then operates to return the radioactive source(s) to the storage container(s) and afterwards to prevent continued operation of the equipment.

Medicinska električna oprema - 2-17. del: Posebne varnostne zahteve za avtomatsko krmiljeno napravo za brahiterapijo z naknadnim polnjenjem (IEC 60601-2-17:2004)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 05-Apr-2004
• Withdrawal Date: 28-Feb-2007
• ICS: 11.040.60 - Therapy equipment
• ICS: 19.100 - Non-destructive testing
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 62 - Electrical equipment in medical practice
• Drafting Committee: IEC/SC 62C - IEC_SC_62C
• Parallel Committee: IEC/SC 62C - IEC_SC_62C
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Start Date: 14-Apr-2018
• Completion Date: 14-Apr-2018
• Directive: 93/42/EEC - Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices
• Mandate: M/432 - Standardisation Mandate addressed to CEN and CENELEC within the framework of Directive 2007/47/EC amending Directive 90/385/EEC and Directive 93/42/EEC relating to Medical Devices
• Ref Project: SIST EN 60601-2-17:2004 - Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-17: Particular requirements for the safety of automatically-controlled brachytherapy afterloading equipment (IEC 60601-2-17:2004)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 60601-2-17:1996 - Medical electrical equipment - Part 2: Particular requirements for the safety of remote-controlled automatically-driven gamma-ray after-loading equipment
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 60601-2-17:1996/A1:1996 - Medical electrical equipment - Part 2: Particular requirements for the safety of remote-controlled automatically-driven gamma-ray after-loading equipment
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaced By: EN 60601-2-17:2015 - Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-17: Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of automatically-controlled brachytherapy afterloading equipment
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

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Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-17: Particular requirements for the safety of
automatically-controlled brachytherapy afterloading equipment (IEC 60601-2-17:2004)
Medizinische elektrische Geräte - Teil 2-17: Besondere Festlegungen für die Sicherheit
ferngesteuerter, automatisch betriebener Afterloading-Geräte für die Brachytherapie (IEC
60601-2-17:2004)
Appareils électromédicaux - Partie 2-17: Règles particulières de sécurité des appareils
projecteurs de brachythérapie avec contrôles automatiques (CEI 60601-2-17:2004)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 60601-2-17:2004
ICS:
11.040.60 Terapevtska oprema Therapy equipment
SIST EN 60601-2-17:2004 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60601-2-17
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM April 2004

ICS 11.040.60; 19.100 Supersedes EN 60601-2-17:1996 + A1:1996


English version


Medical electrical equipment
Part 2-17: Particular requirements for the safety
of automatically-controlled brachytherapy afterloading equipment
(IEC 60601-2-17:2004)


Appareils électromédicaux Medizinische elektrische Geräte
Partie 2-17: Règles particulières Teil 2-17: Besondere Festlegungen
de sécurité des appareils projecteurs für die Sicherheit ferngesteuerter,
de brachythérapie automatisch betriebener
avec contrôles automatiques Afterloading-Geräte für die Brachytherapie
(CEI 60601-2-17:2004) (IEC 60601-2-17:2004)






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Ref. No. EN 60601-2-17:2004 E

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EN 60601-2-17:2004 - 2 -
Foreword
The text of document 62C/363/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 60601-2-17, prepared by SC 62C,
Equipment for radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and radiation dosimetry, of IEC TC 62, Electrical
equipment in medical practice, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was approved
by CENELEC as EN 60601-2-17 on 2004-03-01.
This European Standard supersedes EN 60601-2-17:1996 + A1:1996.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2004-12-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2007-03-01
In this standard, the following print types are used:
– requirements, compliance with which can be tested, and definitions: roman type;
– explanations, advice, notes, general statements, exceptions and references: small roman type;
– test specifications: italic type;
– TERMS USED THROUGHOUT THIS PARTICULAR STANDARD WHICH ARE DEFINED IN CLAUSE 2 OR IN THE
GENERAL STANDARD EN 60601-1, ITS COLLATERAL OR PART 2 STANDARDS, OR IN IEC 60788: SMALL
CAPITALS.
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60601-2-17:2004 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following note has to be added for the standard indicated:
IEC 60601-1-3 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60601-1-3:1994 (not modified).
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