ASTM STP 1431 Spinal Implants: Are We Evaluating Them Appropriately? Melkerson MN
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This STP contains the proceedings of the symposium Spinal Implants: Are We Evaluating Them Appropriately held in November, 2001. The symposium was sponsored by the ASTM International Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices. The papers in this publication evaluate the experience available at that time for testing spinal constructs, spinal device components, subassemblies and interconnections; cages and interbody fusion devices; and functional spinal devices and/or artificial discs. Presentations during this symposium also considered suggestions for future directions for test methods, models, fixtures, or needed improvements.
The papers in this STP are grouped into the categories
- Spinal Constructs
- Spinal Device Components, Subassemblies, and Interconnections
- Interbody Spacers and Intervertebral Body Fusion Devices
- Functional Spinal Devices and/or Artificial Discs
- Suggested Test Methods, Models, Fixtures, or Needed Improvements
- The topics addressed by papers in this collection include:
- clinical results from spinal constructs having marketing clearance or approval
- device failure modes
- corrosion
- explanted devices
- gauge length used in tests
- use of transverse rod connections
- transverse connector designs
- bench testing results
- anchoring materials
- mobility or constraint of the test blocks
- ASTM F1798-97
- ASTM F2077-00
- intervertebral body fusion devices
- spacers and fusion cages
- strength testing methodologies
- disc replacement prostheses
- comparative cadaveric testing
- durability testing
- posterior stabilization without fusion
This STP will be of particular interest to those in the medical and biomedical engineering and manufacturing fields involved with improving the existing spinal construct test methods, spinal components, subassemblies, and interconnections standards existing intervertebral body fusion device test methods.