10th ISAR Congress 2021 – Virtual Congress
10th International Congress of Arhtroplasty Registries
Virtual Congress – November 11-13, 2021
News and events
With CORE-MD project, EU assessment of high-risk medical devices faces in-depth review
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 …
Impact of COVID-19 on volumes of orthopedic prosthetic surgery in Italian Regions: a new report
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, …
Enhancing the achievements of the Italian Arthroplasty Registry: published in Notiziario ISS an overview of its development
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 ISAR Congress 2020 – Virtual Congress
9th International Congress of Arhtroplasty Registries
Virtual Congress – November 13-15, 2020
21st EFORT Congress 2020 – Virtual Congress
21st Annual Congress of European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Virtual EFORT Congress, October 28-30, 2020
European Commission: Italy’s CND replaces GMDN for DM nomenclature
The European Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) plans to use Italy’s CND codes as the basis for the Eudamed device database nomenclature.
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Are Metal-on-Metal hip implants safe? The SCENIHR responds to this question
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.
Consensus statement “Current Evidence on the Management of Metal-on-Metal Bearings”
The following recommendations are based on expert opinions of an international multidisciplinary panel endorsed by EFORT, EHS, the German AE, DAH.