Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians

Different devices Occasionally in paediatrics you will be thinking about using a ‘medical device’. (Though you probably did not realise it, you are likely to have had a Class Im medical device to auscultate a chest in the last month or so, if you have worked in a clinical environment. Or used one to check a blood pressure.) We are making clinical decisions with some of them and about the use of them in other cases. How can we evaluate them? It turns out, like most things we prescribe, most of the hard work has been done for us. Devices are classified from low risk (class I, eg, stethoscope) to high risk (class III, eg, an implantable defibrillator). Each class, before it is released into the wild, has to leap a series of increasingly difficult hurdles. The device needs to demonstrate conformity (each one is roughly the same), clinical...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: ADC Archimedes Source Type: research