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Active devices that are software and programmed – relevant health professional
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Is the device intended to do any of the following?
- Provide information to a relevant health professional for them to make a diagnosis of a disease or condition that may:
- lead to the death of a person, or
- lead to a severe deterioration in the state of a person’s health without urgent treatment, or
- pose a high risk to public health
- Provide information that is to be used for monitoring the state or progression of a disease or condition, or parameters that could indicate that:
- the person or another person may be in immediate danger, or
- there may be a high risk to public health.
- Recommend a treatment or intervention, where the treatment or intervention, or its absence, may:
- lead to the death of a person, or
- lead to a severe deterioration in the state of a person’s health, or
- pose a high risk to public health.
- Provide information as therapy to a person that may cause serious harm to the person (not death or a severe deterioration in the state of the person’s health)
- Administer or exchange energy to or from a patient, where the administration or transfer of energy occurs in a potentially hazardous way, or used to control, monitor, or directly influence, the performance of a medical device that does this
- Monitor vital physiological parameters of a patient, where the nature of the variations monitored could result in immediate danger to the patient (for example, variations in cardiac performance, respiration, activity of the central nervous system
- Emit ionising radiation and to be used for diagnostic or therapeutic interventional radiology or used to control or monitor, or directly influence, the performance of a device that does this
- Used to administer or remove medicine, body liquids or other substances to or from a patient, where the administration or removal of the substances is potentially hazardous to the patient.
Question
Is the active medical device intended to be used for any of the above purposes?