Browse hierarchy: [General, Plastic Surgery (SU)](/submissions/SU) → [Subpart E — Surgical Devices](/submissions/SU/subpart-e%E2%80%94surgical-devices) → [21 CFR 878.4370](/submissions/SU/subpart-e%E2%80%94surgical-devices/878.4370) → PLY — Antimicrobial Drapes

# PLY · Antimicrobial Drapes

_General, Plastic Surgery · 21 CFR 878.4370 · Class 2_

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## Overview

- **Product Code:** PLY
- **Device Name:** Antimicrobial Drapes
- **Regulation:** [21 CFR 878.4370](/submissions/SU/subpart-e%E2%80%94surgical-devices/878.4370)
- **Device Class:** 2
- **Review Panel:** [General, Plastic Surgery](/submissions/SU)

## Identification

A surgical drape and drape accessories is a device made of natural or synthetic materials intended to be used as a protective patient covering, such as to isolate a site of surgical incision from microbial and other contamination. The device includes a plastic wound protector that may adhere to the skin around a surgical incision or be placed in a wound to cover its exposed edges, and a latex drape with a self-retaining finger cot that is intended to allow repeated insertion of the surgeon's finger into the rectum during performance of a transurethral prostatectomy.

## Classification Rationale

Class II (special controls). The device, when it is an ear, nose, and throat surgical drape, a latex sheet drape with self-retaining finger cot, a disposable urological drape, a Kelly pad, an ophthalmic patient drape, an ophthalmic microscope drape, an internal drape retention ring (wound protector), or a surgical drape that does not include an antimicrobial agent, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 878.9.

## Special Controls

*Classification.* Class II (special controls). The device, when it is an ear, nose, and throat surgical drape, a latex sheet drape with self-retaining finger cot, a disposable urological drape, a Kelly pad, an ophthalmic patient drape, an ophthalmic microscope drape, an internal drape retention ring (wound protector), or a surgical drape that does not include an antimicrobial agent, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 878.9.

## Recent Cleared Devices (0 of 0)

_No cleared devices on record._

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**Source:** [https://fda.innolitics.com/submissions/SU/subpart-e%E2%80%94surgical-devices/PLY](https://fda.innolitics.com/submissions/SU/subpart-e%E2%80%94surgical-devices/PLY)

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