Medical devices are instruments, apparatuses, implements, machines, contrivances, implants, or in vitro diagnostics and are intended for the cure, mitigation, treatment, diagnosis, or prevention of disease. They are intended to affect the structure or function of the body through means other than chemical action and independently of being metabolized. In the past few decades there has been greater recognition of how critical they are to delivering state-of-the-art medical care, as their use in the delivery of medical care has always been ubiquitous. In some cases, medical devices will provide the principal therapy for patients. Medical devices are more than scalpels and gravity-fed infusion bags and dental drills. Devices.
