Especificações técnicas de dispositivos médicos: avaliação e sistematização de normas técnicas.

Abstract

Medical device’s Brazilian regulation, compresis the materials for use in healthcare, medical equipment and in vitro diagnostic, widely used in hospitals and even home environments, should contain essential principles of safety and efficacy that these products have to meet. In order to meet these commandments we seek to verify how such devices comply with the requirements in national or international standards. The universe of medical devices is huge, estimated at over eight thousand items, and the standards currently available to this group of devices, which is estimated at more than 800 standards, making it difficult to identify the health aspects related specification and safety. This it is a major challenge for the ANVISA, responsible for controlling and also for the evaluation of these products by laboratories, promote this control. This paper aims to present a systematic model for the establishment of the relevant universe of health products in terms of knowledge of material properties and characterizations of the currently proposed technical specifications. This proposition will allow health surveillance activities been focused on the critical points of the sanitary control of each or group of medical devices, increasing the effectiveness of this control and giving transparency to the action of the Regulatory Agency.