Module 5 Presentations

16/07/2024

Medical devices: definition and types

M-GB-00018492 Date of preparation: July 2024

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Medical Device: Definition

A Medical Device is… US Definition (FD&C Act 201 (h))

EU Definition (MDR Article 2 (1))

an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including any component, part, or accessory, which is

any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, implant, reagent, material or other article intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings

An item…

for one or more of the following specific medical purposes: diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, prediction, prognosis, treatment or alleviation of disease,

diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of, or compensation for, an injury or disability,

intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and

With a medical purpose….

investigation, replacement or modification of the anatomy or of a physiological or pathological process or state,

providing information by means of in vitro examination of specimens derived from the human body, including organ, blood and tissue donations,

…devices for the control or support of conception; products specifically intended for the cleaning, disinfection or sterilisation of devices … and

which does not achieve its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of its primary intended purposes.

which does not achieve its principal intended action by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, in or on the human body, but which may be assisted in its function by such means.

That is not a drug

M-GB-00018492 Date of preparation: July 2024

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