Timiri Shanmugam / Chokkalingam / Bakthavachalam Trends in Development of Medical Devices

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-12-820961-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Trends in Development of Medical Devices covers the basics of medical devices and their development, regulations and toxicological effects, risk assessment and mitigation. It also discusses the maintenance of a medical device portfolio during product lifecycle. This book provides up-to-date information and knowledge on how to understand the position and benefits of new introduced medical devices for improving healthcare. Researchers and industry professionals from the fields of medical devices, surgery, medical toxicology, pharmacy and medical devices manufacture will find this book useful. The book's editors and contributors form a global, interdisciplinary base of knowledge which they bring to this book. - Provides a roadmap to medical devices development and the integration of manufacturing steps to improve workflows - Helps engineers in medical devices industries to anticipate the special requirements of this field with relation to biocompatibility, sterilization methods, government regulations - Presents new strategies that readers can use to take advantage of rapid prototyping technologies, such as 3D printing, to reduce imperfections in production and develop products that enable completely new treatment possibilities

Prakash Srinivasan Timiri Shanmugam, PhD, is currently a Senior Toxicologist at Avanos Medical, Inc. in Alpharetta, Georgia. He was previously contracted as an SME-Biocompatibility at Baxter International, Inc. in Round Lake, IL, United States, and at Johnson & Johnson Medical Device Sector. He has an MSc and a PhD in the specialization of Pharmacology and Toxicology with Chemistry (interdisciplinary) from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, and completed his postdoctoral research at Tulane University and LSUHSC-Shreveport, Louisiana. He has authored 5 books, contributed several book chapters, and published research articles in various peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings/abstracts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Timiri Shanmugam, Prakash Srinivasan

Chokkalingam, Logesh

Bakthavachalam, Pramila