Medical Device Standards — quality management systems, risk management and terminology

According to the European Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC), a medical device is,

"any instrument, apparatus, appliance, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, including the software necessary for its proper application intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of:

• Diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease 
• Diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for an injury or handicap 
• Investigation, replacement or modification of the anatomy or of a physiological process
• Control of conception.

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

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BSI British Standards also publishes standards on:

• In vitro medical devices
• Packaging for medical devices products and healthcare
• Sterilization of medical devices and packaging.

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Medical Devices standards for quality, risk management and terminology

BS EN 15986:2011
Symbol for use in the labelling of medical devices. Requirements for labelling of medical devices containing phthalates

BS EN ISO 14155:2011
Clinical investigation of medical devices for human subjects. Good clinical practice

BS EN 80001-1:2011
Application of risk management for IT-networks incorporating medical devices. Roles, responsibilities and activities

BS ISO 15223-2:2010
Medical devices. Symbols to be used with medical device labels, labelling, and information to be supplied. Symbol development, selection and validation

BS EN ISO 22442-1:2007
Medical devices utilizing animal tissues and their derivatives. Application of risk management

BS EN ISO 14971:2009
Medical devices. Application of risk management to medical devices

BS EN ISO 13485:2003
Medical devices. Quality management systems. Requirements for regulatory purposes

BS EN ISO 11737-1:2006
Sterilization of medical devices. Microbiological methods. Determination of a population of microorganisms on products

BS EN 980 CD-ROM
Contains a PDF of the full text of BS EN 980 and the symbol graphics for  labelling medical devices. Eliminates the need to re-draw

BS EN 980:2008
Symbols for use in the labelling of medical devices

BS EN 15424:2007
Sterilization of medical devices. Low temperature steam and formaldehyde. Requirements for development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices 

BS EN 1041:2008
Information supplied by the manufacturer of medical devices

BS EN 55011:2009+Amendment 1:2010
Industrial, scientific and medical equipment. Radio-frequency disturbance characteristics. Limits and methods of measurement

BS EN ISO 10993-1:2009
Biological evaluation of medical devices. Evaluation and testing

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