On the 26th of May 2021, the new Medical Devices Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR) came into effect. Medical devices placed on the EU market must now comply with the MDR. After the transitional period and a delay due to the COVID-19 emergency, this is an important date for manufacturers and their authorized representatives, as well …
10th International Congress of Arhtroplasty Registries
Virtual Congress – November 11-13, 2021
CORE-MD, the first European project to identify ways to enable the scientific, fair, and systematic evaluation of medical devices, has been officially launched on 16 April. More than 50% of high-risk implantable medical devices in Europe are used in cardiology and orthopaedics. The multidisciplinary project is led by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in …
The report “Impact of COVID-19 pandemic emergency on joint arthroplasties in seven Italian Regions. Version of March 17, 2021” (Rapporto ISS COVID-19 n. 7/2021*) is now available on the website of the Italian National Institute of Health in Italian language. The study is the result of a close collaboration between the RIAP working group, surgeons, …
The article “Valorizzare il patrimonio del registro italiano artroprotesi (Riap): un passo necessario per migliorare la qualità delle cure e la sicurezza del paziente” (Torre M, Urakcheeva I, Carrani E, Ciminello E) /Enhancing the achievements of the Italian Arthroplasty Registry: a necessary step to improve the quality of care and patient safety/ was published in …
9th International Congress of Arhtroplasty Registries
Virtual Congress – November 13-15, 2020
21st Annual Congress of European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Virtual EFORT Congress, October 28-30, 2020
The European Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) plans to use Italy’s CND codes as the basis for the Eudamed device database nomenclature.
The SCENIHR responds to this question in its Opinion on “The safety of Metal-on-Metal (MoM) joint replacements with a particular focus on hip implants”, the main points of which are summarised in fact sheet attached.