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35、nal Organization for StandardizationCAN/CSA-ISO 14971:07Medical devices Application of riskmanagement to medical devicesMay 2007 Canadian Standards Association CSA/3CAN/CSA-ISO 14971:07Medical devices Application of risk management to medical devicesCSA PrefaceThis is the second edition of CAN/CSA-I
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46、 requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyrightiso.org Web www.iso.org ii ISO 2007 All rights reservedCAN/CSA-ISO 14971:07ISO 14971:2007(E) ISO 2007 All rights reserved iiiContents Page Foreword iv Introduction v 1 Scop
47、e . 1 2 Terms and definitions. 1 3 General requirements for risk management 5 3.1 Risk management process 5 3.2 Management responsibilities 7 3.3 Qualification of personnel . 7 3.4 Risk management plan. 7 3.5 Risk management file. 8 4 Risk analysis . 8 4.1 Risk analysis process 8 4.2 Intended use an
48、d identification of characteristics related to the safety of the medical device. 9 4.3 Identification of hazards 9 4.4 Estimation of the risk(s) for each hazardous situation. 9 5 Risk evaluation 10 6 Risk control . 11 6.1 Risk reduction . 11 6.2 Risk control option analysis 11 6.3 Implementation of
49、risk control measure(s) 11 6.4 Residual risk evaluation. 12 6.5 Risk/benefit analysis 12 6.6 Risks arising from risk control measures12 6.7 Completeness of risk control 12 7 Evaluation of overall residual risk acceptability . 13 8 Risk management report 13 9 Production and post-production information 13 Annex A (informative) Rationale for requirements . 15 Annex B (informative) Overview of the risk management process for medical devices 23 Annex C (informative) Questions that can be used to identify medical device characteristics t
