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Q&A Essential safety features of an EMG/medical grade device?

What are the essential safety features of such types of hardware? One option to make such hardware safer is to make it battery powered. What other safety features are generally recommended? ...

posted 1y ago by Nick Alexeev‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Nick Alexeev‭ · 2023-08-21T15:20:43Z (over 1 year ago)
  • > What are the essential safety features of such types of hardware?
  • > One option to make such hardware safer is to make it battery powered. What other safety features are generally recommended?
  • The answer to these questions are in the [IEC 60601 standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60601). If you are involved in electrical design of a medical device (or anything that has a hint of medical device), then at a minimum you should familiarize yourself with section 8 of the IEC 60601-1.
  • > What are the essential safety features of such types of hardware?
  • > One option to make such hardware safer is to make it battery powered. What other safety features are generally recommended?
  • The answer to these questions are in the [IEC 60601 standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60601). If you are involved in electrical design of a medical device (or anything that has a hint of medical device), then at a minimum you should familiarize yourself with section 8 of the IEC 60601-1.
  • I also recommend finding an experienced medical device electrical engineer as a reviewer.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Nick Alexeev‭ · 2023-08-21T15:17:59Z (over 1 year ago)
 > What are the essential safety features of such types of hardware?


 > One option to make such hardware safer is to make it battery powered. What other safety features are generally recommended?

The answer to these questions are in the [IEC 60601 standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60601).  If you are involved in electrical design of a medical device (or anything that has a hint of medical device), then at a minimum you should familiarize yourself with section 8 of the IEC 60601-1.