# K954490: Mercury Medical CPR Bag Exhalation Filter

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Mercury Medical
- Decided: Oct 3, 1996 after 372 days
- Product code: CAH (Filter, Bacterial, Breathing-Circuit)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 868.5260
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 1 generation back to K851070 (1985). 1 ancestor in all.
1 later device descends from it; 1 cites it directly.
0 of 3 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K851070: Resp-Bac Bacteria Filter, Medicomp, Inc. (1985) Summary page 1.

## Cited in the summary but kept off the family tree
- K911622: CPR Bag, Merced Medical, Inc. (1991). Our OCR of the scanned summary read K911622, FDA’s number for CPR Bag (Merced Medical, Inc.). Its FDA name has none of the distinctive words the summary uses for the device it names, “Mercury Medical CPR Resuscitator”. Kept off the family tree. Summary page 1.

## Most influential descendants
- K251583: Ambu® Virobac II® Exhalation Filter (2026), 0 descendants of its own

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K954490
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology