Safety Risk Management for Medical Devices

2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-323-85755-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 534 Seiten, Format (B × H): 194 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1133 g

Safety Risk Management for Medical Devices, Second Edition teaches the essential safety risk management methodologies for medical devices compliant with the requirements of ISO 14971:2019. Focusing exclusively on safety risk assessment practices required in the MedTech sector, the book outlines sensible, easily comprehensible, state-of the-art methodologies that are rooted in current industry best practices, addressing safety risk management of medical devices, thus making it useful for those in the MedTech sector who are responsible for safety risk management or need to understand risk management, including design engineers, product engineers, development engineers, software engineers, Quality assurance and regulatory affairs.

Graduate-level engineering students with an interest in medical devices will also benefit from this book. The new edition has been fully updated to reflect the state-of-the-art in this fast changing field. It offers guidance on developing and commercializing medical devices in line with the most current international standards and regulations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elahi, Bijan

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

2 What Is A Medical Device?

3 Why Do Risk-Management?
4 The Basics

5 Understanding Risk

6 Risk Management Standards

7 Requirements of the Risk Management Process

8 Quality Management System

9 Usability Engineering and Risk Analysis

10 Biocompatibility and Risk Management

11 Influence of Security on Safety
12 The BXM Method
13 Risk Management Process

14 Risk Analysis Techniques

15 Software Risk Management
16 Integration of Risk Analysis
17 Risk Estimation
18 Risk Controls

19 Verification of Risk Controls
20 On Testing

21 Risk Evaluation
22 Risk Assessment and Control Table (RACT)
23 Benefit-Risk Analysis
24 Risk Management Review

26 Traceability

27 Lifetime of a Medical Device

28 Safety versus Reliability

29 Risk Management for System of Systems

30 Risk Management for Clinical Investigations

31 Risk Management for Legacy Devices
32 Risk Management for Combination Medical Devices

33 Basic Safety and Essential Performance

34 Relationship between ISO 14971 and other Standards

35 Risk Management Process Metrics

36 Risk Management and Product Development Process
37 Risk Management for Suppliers

38 Axioms

39 Special Topics

40 Critical Thinking and Risk Management

41 Advice and Wisdom

Appendix A - Glossary

Appendix B - Templates

Appendix C - Example Device - Vivio

Appendix D - Useful References

Über Autor(innen)

Elahi, Bijan
Bijan Elahi is an expert on a world scale in safety risk management for medical technology. Mr. Elahi's mission is to elevate knowledge and proficiency in medical device risk management to the highest levels worldwide via teaching, coaching, and mentoring, for the benefit of companies and society. He has 30+ years of experience in risk management, working with the largest medical device companies in the world, as well as with small start-ups. He is a lecturer at Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), where he teaches a graduate-level course in medical device risk management. The audience for this education is doctoral students in engineering as well as physicians and professionals in the medical device sector. Additionally, Mr. Elahi is a lecturer at Drexel University in Philadelphia (USA), and at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). He is the recipient of the Educator of the Year Award by the International System Safety Society. In 2019 he received an award in recognition of Outstanding Development of Analytical Methods to Support Medical Device System Safety. Mr. Elahi has a long history of medical device development spanning class III implantable pulse generators, electro-mechanical, and disposable devices. His most recent product was a Deep Brain Stimulator (DBS) implant for Parkinson's disease. The knowledge that he imparts in his book is rooted in state-of-the-art practical knowledge in medical device development. Mr. Elahi is a Technical Fellow and a corporate advisor at Medtronic. In this role, he teaches and consults on medical device risk management to all Medtronic business units worldwide, including China, India, Middle East, Europe and North America. Mr. Elahi is a contributor to ISO 14971, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of System Safety, a publication of the International System Safety Society. Mr. Elahi is a frequently invited speaker and lecturer at international conferences. Earlier in his distinguished career, he was a systems engineer on the Space Shuttle at NASA (USA). Mr. Elahi holds an MS Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Washington and a BS Aerospace Engineering degree from Iowa State University, United States.