Medical device is like any apparatus,
instrument, machine, implement, appliance, implant, reagent for in vitro use,
software, material or alternative similar or related article, meant by the
manufacturer to be used, alone or together.Medical devices range from a
bandage that you would put on a scratch to high risk products such as
pacemakers that are planted in your body.
Different Examples of Medical Devices Include:
- Blood pressure monitors
- Breast implants
- Catheters
- lubricating eye drops
- MRI scanners
- Orthodontics - braces, fillings
- Syringes
- Tongue depressors
- Artificial hips
Most often
medical devices used with application such as diagnosis, prevention,
monitoring, treatment of handicap. They are designed to save and improve lives
of people around the world. Medical devices are different types, some devices are
used for monitoring and other devices are used for diagnostics purposes. In
both the cases they are useful and being used for the urgent medical need. It is, simply defined,
any item used to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease, injury, or any other
condition that is not a drug, biologic, or food.
To Use Medical Devices Safely:
- Know how your device works. Keep
instructions close by
- Understand and properly respond to device alarms
- Have a back-up plan and supplies in
the event of an emergency
- Keep emergency numbers available
and update them as required
- Educate your family and caregivers about your device
There are
Different Types of Medical Devices Such As:
Active medical device, Any medical device the
operation of which depends on a source
of electrical energy or any source of power rather than directly generated by
the human body or gravity and which acts by changing this energy.Medical device planning for its functioning on a source of
electrical energy or any source of power apart from that directly generated by
the physical body or gravity. E.g. Ultrasound scanner, lungs ventilator, X-ray
machines, pacemaker, phototherapy etc.
The Medical
Devices has a very wide scope and it is important to realize that the meant
purpose and also the way a product is marketed will cause them to be covered or
excluded.
