Safe Medical Devices for Children

by Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Postmarket Surveillance of Pediatric Medical Devices, Institute of Medicine

Innovative medical devices have helped reduce the burden of illness and injury and improve the quality of life for countless children. Mechanical ventilators and other respiratory support devices rescue thousands of fragile newborns every year. Children who once would have died of congenital heart conditions survive with the aid of implanted pacemakers, mechanical heart valves, and devices that close holes in the heart. Responding to a Congressional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309096316
• ISBN13: 9780309096317
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.3"