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  2. Medical device - Wikipedia

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    This article needs to be updated.The reason given is: the section related to E.U. needs further updates (esp. in sections 3.2 and 4.2.2) as the directives 93/42/EEC on medical devices and 90/385/EEC on active implantable medical devices have been fully repealed on 26 May 2021 by Regulation (EU) no. 2017/745 (MDR); furthermore, Brexit triggers updates in these sections (U.K. developed their own ...

  3. Medical device design - Wikipedia

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    Class II. Class II are devices with moderate risk. [5] Class I and Class II devices are subject to less stringent regulatory processes than Class III devices. [5] Class I or II devices are focused on registration, manufacturing, and labeling. [5] In general they do not require clinical data. [5] Most class II devices go through a PMN (a 510[k ...

  4. Medical Device Regulation Act - Wikipedia

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    Medical device cannot be classified as a class II device because insufficient information exists for the establishment of a performance standard to provide reasonable assurance of its safety and effectiveness of the device. Medical device is to be for use in supporting or sustaining human life, of substantial importance in preventing impairment ...

  5. Category:Medical devices - Wikipedia

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    A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implant, in vitro reagent, or similar or related article that is used to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or other conditions, and does not achieve its purposes through chemical action within or on the body (which would make it a drug).

  6. Biomedical engineering - Wikipedia

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    The greatest hurdles tend to be 510K "clearance" (typically for Class 2 devices) or pre-market "approval" (typically for drugs and class 3 devices). In the European context, safety effectiveness and quality is ensured through the "Conformity Assessment" which is defined as "the method by which a manufacturer demonstrates that its device ...

  7. Appliance classes - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, Class III appliances are designed without an earth conductor and should not be connected to the earth grounding of the SELV power source. [1] [why?] For medical devices, compliance with Class III is not considered sufficient protection, and furthermore, stringent regulations apply to such equipment. [2]

  8. Global Medical Device Nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) is a system of internationally agreed generic descriptors used to identify all medical device products. This nomenclature is a naming system for products which include those used for the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease or injury in humans.

  9. Silver diammine fluoride - Wikipedia

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    The product was cleared for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a Class II medical device for the treatment of dentinal hypersensitivity, [13] and has been classified as an ‘effective, efficient, equitable and safe caries-preventative agent’ by the Institute of Medicine and the Millennium Goals of the World Health Organization ...