Links
Standards and Regulatory Agencies
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
www.fda.gov
Office of Device Evaluation (ODE)
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ode/index.html
Office of Combination Products
http://www.fda.gov/oc/combination/
Office of Orphan Products Development
http://www.fda.gov/orphan/
CDRH Databases
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/databases.html
CDRH Device Advice
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice/
ASTM International (originally American Society for Testing and Materials)
www.astm.org
International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.ch/
CE Marking Medical Devices
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/sectors/medical-devices/documents/index_en.htm
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
http://www.ansi.org/
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
www.aami.org
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
http://www.clsi.org/
Professional Societies
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)
http://www.aats.org/
The American College of Cardiology (ACC)
http://www.acc.org/
The American Heart Association (AHA)
http://www.americanheart.org/
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME-BED)
http://www.asme.org/divisions/bed/index.html
The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
http://www.bmes.org/
The Heart Valve Society of America
http://www.heartvalvesocietyofamerica.org/
The Society of Heart Valve disease
http://www.shvd.org/
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
http://www.sts.org/index.html
Society for Biomaterials
http://www.biomaterials.org/
Conferences
AsiaPCR
http://www.asiapcr.com/
EuroPCR
http://www.europcr.com/
EACTS
http://www.eacts.org/
LondonPCR
http://www.europcr.com/page/europcr/67-pcr-family.html
STS
http://www.sts.org/sections/annualmeeting/
Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT)
http://www.tctmd.com/
Trancatheter Valve Therapies
http://www.tvtconference.com/
Valves in the Heart of the Big Apple
http://www.heartvalveconference.com/
