Medical Devices

Question 1

What is a medical device?

Answer 1

It’s an instrument, apparutus, in vitro reagent, implant or other similar or related articles that are intended to use for: treatment, diagnosis, prevent, mitigate and intended to affect a structure that does not achieve any of it’s primary intended purposes through it’s chemical action in or on the body

Question 2

Give five examples of medical devices

Answer 2

Bandages
Sutures
Disposable hypodermic needles
Disposable hypodermic syringes
Cotton wool
Cardiac stents

Question 3

What’s a suture used for?

Answer 3

To repair cuts in the skin tissue by holding the tissues together where there’s a breakage in the skin integrity after an injury or surgery.

Question 4

What’s a suture used for?

Answer 4

To repair cuts in the skin tissue by holding the tissues together where there’s a breakage in the skin integrity after an injury or surgery.

Question 5

Sutures are classified into which categories?

Answer 5

-Monofilament or braided
-Synthetic or natural
-Absorbable and non-absorbable

Question 6

What are some commonly used non-absorbable sutures?

Answer 6

Nylon, silk and prolene

Question 7

Give examples of four types of non-absorbable sutures

Answer 7

-Silk sutures
-Stainless steel wire sutures
-Polyethylene sutures
-Polyamide sutures

Question 8

Examples of tissues that can he held together using sutures

Answer 8

Tendons
Fascia
Abdominal wall