Glossary

Reusable surgical instrument [MDR]

MDR

‘Reusable surgical instrument’ means an instrument intended for surgical use in cutting, drilling, sawing, scratching, scraping, clamping, retracting, clipping or similar procedures, without a connection to an active device and which is intended by the manufacturer to be reused after appropriate procedures such as cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation have been carried out.

 

[Definition according to (EU) 2017/745 Annex VIII Chapter I No. 2.3]