life supporting or life sustaining medical device definition

life supporting or life sustaining medical device means a medical device that is essential to or that yields information that is essential to the restoration or continuation of a body function important to the continuation of human life;

Related to life supporting or life sustaining medical device

  • Life-sustaining treatment means treatment that, based on reasonable medical judgment, sustains the life of a patient and without which the patient will die. The term includes both life-sustaining medications and artificial life support such as mechanical breathing machines, kidney dialysis treatment, and artificially administered nutrition and hydration. The term does not include the administration of pain management medication, the performance of a medical procedure necessary to provide comfort care, or any other medical care provided to alleviate a patient's pain.

  • medical device means any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, implant, reagent, material or other article intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings for one or more of the following specific medical purposes:

  • Consumables and medical devices means (consumables) items that require regular replacement (e.g. batteries) to keep a medical device (such as a hearing aid) operational. Many medical devices require consumables.

  • Medical cannabis card means the same as that term is defined in Section 26-61a-102.

  • Medical cannabis pharmacy means the same as that term is defined in Section 26-61a-102.