Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 882.5960 - Skull tongs for traction.

(a) Identification. Skull tongs for traction is an instrument used to immobilize a patient with a cervical spine injury (e.g., fracture or dislocation). The device is caliper shaped with tips that penetrate the skin. It is anchored to the skull and has a heavy weight attached to it that maintains, by traction, the patient's position.

(b) Classification. Class II (performance standards).

authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360
source: 44 FR 51730, Sept. 4, 1979, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 882.5960