Treat The Packaging As An Accessory
Karen Sams
Article Summary
Packaging for medical devices play a key role in safely delivering specialized treatment to patients. Most single-use, sterilized medical devices can be opened with a high degree of confidence that it has remained sterile throughout storage, handling, and transportation.
What makes packaging doubly important is that regulatory authorities recognize the critical nature of sterile barrier or primary package by considering them components or accessories to the medical device. This implies that packaging is almost as important as the device itself. And it is. If a package does not keep, for instance, a pacemaker sterile, patients will be put at risk.
