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# PWX · Insect Sting Emergency Kit

_General Hospital · 21 CFR 880.5740 · Class 1_

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## Overview

- **Product Code:** PWX
- **Device Name:** Insect Sting Emergency Kit
- **Regulation:** [21 CFR 880.5740](/submissions/HO/subpart-f%E2%80%94general-hospital-and-personal-use-therapeutic-devices/880.5740)
- **Device Class:** 1
- **Review Panel:** [General Hospital](/submissions/HO)

## Identification

A suction snakebite kit is a device consisting of a knife, suction device, and tourniquet used for first-aid treatment of snakebites by removing venom from the wound.

## Classification Rationale

Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter, subject to the limitations in § 880.9.

## Recent Cleared Devices (0 of 0)

_No cleared devices on record._

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