TS EN ISO 19223
Lung ventilators and related equipment - Vocabulary and semantics
This document establishes a vocabulary of terms and semantics for all fields of respiratory care involving mechanical ventilation, such as intensive-care ventilation, anaesthesia ventilation, emergency and transport ventilation and home-care ventilation, including sleep-apnoea breathing-therapy equipment. It is applicable — in lung ventilator and breathing-therapy device standards, — in health informatics standards, — for labelling on medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems, — in medical electrical equipment and medical electrical system instructions for use and accompanying documents, — for medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems interoperability, and — in electronic health records. This document is also applicable to those accessories intended by their manufacturer to be connected to a ventilator breathing system or to a ventilator, where the characteristics of those accessories can affect the basic safety or essential performance of the ventilator and ventilator breathing system. NOTE This document can also be used for other applications relating to lung ventilation, including non-electrical devices and equipment, research, description of critical events, forensic analysis and adverse event (vigilance) reporting systems. This document does not specify terms specific to breathing-therapy equipment, or to physiologic closed-loop ventilation, high-frequency ventilation or negative-pressure ventilation; nor to respiratory support using liquid ventilation or extra-corporeal gas exchange, or oxygen, except where it has been considered necessary to establish boundaries between bordering concepts.
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TS EN ISO 19223 is a vocabulary standard for lung ventilators and related equipment, intended to keep the terminology and meaning of respiratory care concepts consistent across the mechanical-ventilation field. It supports common naming in intensive care, anaesthesia, emergency and transport ventilation, home-care ventilation, and sleep-apnoea breathing-therapy equipment.
Why the terminology matters
In respiratory care, the same concept may appear in device labels, instructions for use, health informatics, interoperability profiles, and electronic health records. This standard provides a common language for those contexts. From a general technical perspective, vocabulary standards do not change how a ventilator works; they help reduce ambiguity, support accurate communication, and make documentation more consistent across clinical and engineering settings.
Where the boundaries are drawn
- Accessories connected to a ventilator or ventilator breathing system are included when the manufacturer intends that connection and the accessory characteristics can affect basic safety or essential performance.
- The document does not specify terms unique to breathing-therapy equipment, physiologic closed-loop ventilation, high-frequency ventilation, or negative-pressure ventilation.
- It also excludes respiratory support using liquid ventilation, extra-corporeal gas exchange, and oxygen, except where needed to define boundaries between neighbouring concepts.
- The note indicates broader use in other lung-ventilation applications, including non-electrical devices, research, critical-event description, forensic analysis, and adverse-event reporting systems.
In practical terms, ventilator terminology helps distinguish concepts such as ventilation modes, patient interfaces, alarms, monitoring functions, and accessories, so that technical documents and clinical records use the same words with the same meaning. The standard is about naming and semantic consistency, not about prescribing a specific ventilation method.
- Publication Date: 6.05.2021
- Standard Status: U (Yürürlükteki Standard/Standard)
- Publisher: TSE
- Document Language: en
- ICS Classification: 01.040.11 Sağlık Teknolojisi(Terimler); 11.040.10 Anestezi, Solunum ve Reanimasyon Ekipmanları
- Pages: 154
- Source Standard: EN ISO 19223:2021
- International Equivalents: EN ISO 19223-EQV; ISO 19223-EQV
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