What is a medical device?
What is a medical device? How do you recognise a medical device? What are they used for? Based on examples, this video answers these and a number of other questions.
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How do medical devices come onto the market?
This video explains firstly the steps that a medical device must follow until it can be used and, secondly, how it is monitored once it has been placed on the market.
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What are the tasks of Swissmedic in the area of medical devices?
What legal role does the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products play in monitoring medical devices? This video shows Swissmedic's principal tasks.
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Products without a medical purpose – What are they?
Watch this video to find out which products are subject to this change.
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Products without a medical purpose: procurement and use
This video answers what needs to be considered during procurement and use.
The symbols used are taken from the ISO 15223-1 standard.
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Materiovigilance – every report counts!
Serious incidents involving medical devices: find out in the video why every report counts!
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