Glossary

Reusable surgical instrument [MDCG 2021-24]

MDCG

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 of term as defined in MDCG 2021-24 No. 3.1.4, also corresponds to definition under (EU) 2017/745 Annex VIII 2.3]