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Active devices that are software and programmed
Body
Is the device intended to do any of the following?
- Diagnose or screen for a disease or condition that
- is a serious disease or serious condition or,
- a disease or condition that may pose a moderate risk to public health
- Monitor the state or progression of a disease, condition or parameter that could indicate that:
- the person or another person may be in immediate danger, or
- there may be a high risk to public health
- Specify or recommend a treatment or intervention, where the treatment or intervention, or its absence, may:
- be harmful to a person (but not lead to their death or a severe deterioration in their state of a health), or
- pose a moderate 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?