EN 45502-1:2015

Implants for surgery - Active implantable medical devices - Part 1: General requirements for safety, marking and for information to be provided by the manufacturer

Publication date:   Jul 16, 2015

General information

60.60 Standard published   May 22, 2015

CEN/CENELEC

CEN/CLC/JTC 16 CEN/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee on Active Implantable Medical Devices

European Norm

11.040.01   Medical equipment in general

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Scope

This Part 1 of EN 45502 specifies requirements that are generally applicable to ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES.
NOTE 1 For particular types of ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES, these general requirements are supplemented or modified by the requirements of particular standards which form additional parts of this European Standard.
The tests that are specified in EN 45502 are type tests and are to be carried out on samples of an ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE to show compliance.
This Part 1 of EN 45502 is applicable not only to ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES that are electrically powered but also to those powered by other energy sources (for example by gas pressure or by springs).
This Part 1 of EN 45502 is also applicable to some non-implantable parts and accessories of the ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES.
NOTE 2 The terminology used in this European Standard is intended to be consistent with the terminology of Directive 90/385/EEC.
NOTE 3 In this European Standard, terms printed in small capital letters are used as defined in Clause 3. Where a defined term is used as a qualifier in another term, it is not printed in small capital letters unless the concept thus qualified is also defined.

Related legislation

Legislation related to this standard

90/385/EEC

Active implantable medical devices

Life cycle

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EN 45502-1:1997

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PUBLISHED
EN 45502-1:2015
60.60 Standard published
May 22, 2015