2021-06

According to Article 18 (a) of the MDR, the manufacturer of an implantable medical device shall provide together with the device, information allowing the identification of the device, including the device name, serial number, lot number, the UDI, the device model, as well as the name, address and the website of the manufacturer.

In accordance with the instructions laid out in MDCG 2019-8, the implant card should also indicate a ‘device type’ for the implantable medical device in question.

This document provides a non-exhaustive list of implantable medical ‘device types’ in order to aid manufacturers in allocating an appropriate term for this requested information.

The document can be downloaded in our library

Source: European Commission – MDCG