← Product Code [KPD](/submissions/HO/subpart-c%E2%80%94general-hospital-and-personal-use-monitoring-devices/KPD) · K780580

# TEMPERATURE INDICATOR (K780580)

_Respiratory Care, Inc. · KPD · Apr 27, 1978 · General Hospital · SESE_

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## Device Facts

- **Applicant:** Respiratory Care, Inc.
- **Product Code:** [KPD](/submissions/HO/subpart-c%E2%80%94general-hospital-and-personal-use-monitoring-devices/KPD.md)
- **Decision Date:** Apr 27, 1978
- **Decision:** SESE
- **Submission Type:** Traditional
- **Regulation:** 21 CFR 880.2200
- **Device Class:** Class 2
- **Review Panel:** General Hospital

## Regulatory Identification

A liquid crystal forehead temperature strip is a device applied to the forehead that is used to indicate the presence or absence of fever, or to monitor body temperature changes. The device displays the color changes of heat sensitive liquid crystals corresponding to the variation in the surface temperature of the skin. The liquid crystals, which are cholesteric esters, are sealed in plastic.

## Special Controls

*Classification.* Class II (special controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to § 880.9.

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