Today, there are a wide variety of medical devices that employ implantable silicones, including pacemakers, cochlear implants, stents, and implants used in cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries.

FDA regulations categorize medical devices into three classes, with varying levels of control to manage risks and ensure the safety of medical technologies.

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The outbound communication brings sensor signals and device conditions to the reader outside the body. The sensors can monitor physiologic signals, such as blood pressure, intracranial pressure, core ...

200,000 implantable pacemakers, about 200,000 heart valves, thousands of venous stents, and other prosthetics. Similar concerns have cropped up with other medical devices, such as metal-on-metal ...

A team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Northwestern University in Chicago has developed a device that may rescue people from overdose without bystander help. In animal ...

announces the launch of FibGel—a natural injectable hydrogel for permanent implantable medical devices. FibGel is a nanofibrillar cellulose hydrogel made from birch wood cellulose and water only, ...

Major medical insurance ... The full list of minimum essential coverage areas includes prescription drugs, pediatric services, outpatient services, laboratory services, rehabilitative and habilitative ...

The risk associated with implantation of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator ... The long-term risk of having an ICD, including lead- or device-related malfunction, infection, and ...

BME knowledge and skills play important roles in modern healthcare — from diagnosis and analysis to treatment and recovery, and from the proliferation of implantable medical devices (such as ...

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