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Safe Medical Devices for Children by Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Postmarket Surveillance of Pediatric Medical Devices is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Safe Medical Devices for Children about?

Innovative medical devices have helped reduce the burden of illness and injury and improve the quality of life for countless children. Mechanical ventilators and other respiratory support devices rescue thousands of fragile newborns every year. Children who once would have died of congenital heart conditions survive with the aid of implanted pacemakers, mechanical heart valves, and devices that close holes in the heart. Responding to a Congressional request, the Institute of Medicine assesses the system for postmarket surveillance of medical devices used with children. The book specifically examines:The Food and Drug Administration's monitoring and use of adverse event reportsThe agency's monitoring of manufacturers' fulfillment of commitments for postmarket studies ordered at the time of a device's approval for marketingThe adequacy of postmarket studies of implanted devices to evaluate the effects of children's active lifestyles and their growth and development on device performancePostmarket surveillance of medical devices used with children is a little investigated topic, in part because the market for most medical products is concentrated among older adults. Yet children diffe

Who reads Safe Medical Devices for Children?

Author

Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Postmarket Surveillance of Pediatric Medical Devices

Publisher

National Academies Press ; Oxford Publicity Partnership [distributor

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309096317

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Marketing