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Federal Register :: Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff; Total Product Life Cycle: Infusion Pump-Premarket Notification [510(k)] Submissions; Availability
Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff; Total Product Life Cycle: Infusion Pump-Premarket Notification [510(k)] Submissions; Availability
Although you can comment on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR 10.115(g)(5)), to ensure that the agency considers your comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final version of the guidance, submit written or electronic comments on the draft guidance by July 26, 2010. Submit written or electronic comments on the collection of information by June 25, 2010.
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Draft Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff; Total Product Life Cycle: Infusion Pump—Premarket Notification [510(k)] Submissions
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2010-9209 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2010-9209
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance document entitled “Total Product Life Cycle: Infusion Pump—Premarket Notification [510(k)] Submissions.” The recommendations in this guidance are intended to improve the safety and effectiveness of these devices. This draft guidance is not final nor is it in effect at this time. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, FDA is announcing a public meeting regarding external infusion pumps.
Submit written requests for single copies of the draft guidance document entitled “Total Product Life Cycle: Infusion Pump—Premarket Notification [510(k)] Submissions” to the Division of Small Manufacturers, International, and Consumer Assistance, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 66, rm. 4613, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002. Send one self-addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing your request, or fax your request to 301-847-8149. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for information on electronic access to the guidance.
FDA has seen an increase in the number and severity of infusion pump recalls. Analyses of medical device reports (MDRs) revealed device problems that appear to be a result of faulty design. Between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2009, FDA received over 56,000 MDRs associated with the use of infusion pumps. Of these reports, approximately 1 percent were reported as deaths, 32 percent were reported as serious injuries, and 64 percent were reported as malfunctions.
The most frequently reported infusion pump device problems are: Software error messages, human factors (which include but are not limited to use error), broken components, battery failure, alarm failure, over infusion, and under infusion. In some reports, the manufacturer was unable to determine or identify the problem and reported the problem as “unknown.” Subsequent root cause analyses revealed that many of these design problems were foreseeable and, therefore, preventable.
After evaluating a broad spectrum of infusion pumps across manufacturers, FDA has concluded there are numerous, systemic problems with device design, manufacturing, and adverse event reporting. The agency believes that the draft guidance provides recommendations that will help mitigate current risks and reduce future risks associated with infusion pumps.
This draft guidance is being issued consistent with FDA's good guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The draft guidance, when finalized will Start Printed Page 21633represent the agency's current thinking on infusion pumps. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternative approach may be used if such approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statute and regulations.
Persons interested in obtaining a copy of the draft guidance may do so by using the Internet. To receive “Total Product Life Cycle: Infusion Pump—Premarket Notification [510(k)] Submissions,” you may either send an e-mail request to dsmica@fda.hhs.gov to receive an electronic copy of the document or send a fax request to 301-847-8149 to receive a hard copy. Please use the document number 1694 to identify the guidance you are requesting. A search capability for all CDRH guidance documents is available at http://www.fda.gov/​MedicalDevices/​DeviceRegulationandGuidance/​GuidanceDocuments/​default.htm. Guidance documents are also available at http://www.regulations.gov.
This draft guidance is intended to assist industry in preparing premarket notification submissions for infusion pumps and to identify device features that manufactures should address throughout the total product life cycle. The premarket notification procedures discussed in the draft guidance (21 CFR 807, subpart E) have been approved under OMB control number 0910-0120. The proposed information collection seeks to add clinical or scientific data demonstrating that new or changed infusion pumps are as safe and effective as those legally marketed and do not raise different questions of safety and effectiveness than predicate devices in this generic device type. In this way manufacturers of infusion pumps may demonstrate substantial equivalence and receive premarket clearance for their devices.
Description of Respondents: The respondents to this collection of information are infusion pump manufacturers subject to FDA's laws and regulations. The agency estimates the burden of this collection of information as follows:
Guidance Title: Infusion Pumps— Premarket Notification 510(k) Submissions
Guidance Section 6—Assurance Case Report 31 1 31 56 1,736
FDA estimates it will receive 31 infusion pump submissions annually. The agency reached this estimate by averaging the number of premarket notifications for infusion pumps submitted to FDA over the past 5 years. The draft guidance identifies 56 potential hazards FDA recommends addressing if applicable to a particular device. Although there may be additional hazards identified by a manufacturer, the agency believes these hazards may offset FDA identified hazards not applicable to a particular device. FDA estimates it will take infusion pump manufactures approximately 56 hours (approximately one hour per hazard) to complete the case assurance report described in section 6 of the draft guidance. FDA reached this estimate based on its expectation of the amount of information that will be contained in the report.
This draft guidance also refers to previously approved information collections found in FDA regulations. The collections of information in 21 CFR part 803 are approved under OMB control number 0910-0437; the collections of information in 21 CFR part 801 are approved under OMB control number 0910-0485; the collections of information in 21 CFR part 812 are approved under OMB control number 0910-0078; the collections of information in 21 CFR part 814, subparts B and E are approved under OMB control number 0910-0231; the collections of information in 21 CFR part 820 are approved under OMB control number 0910-0073; the collections of information in 21 CFR part 822 are under OMB control number 0910-0449; and the collections of information in 21 CFR 56.115 are approved under OMB control number 0910-0130.Start Printed Page 21634
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