Traumatology

Colonel John A. Feagin Jr., MD, one of the founding members and past president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, died on Sept. 1, 2019.

Did you miss one of the recent EFORT webinars?

The European Union Commission has launched a new medical device regulation for devices sold in the European Union that replaces the existing medical device directive. Under the new regulation, devices on the market are classified into one of three levels, with class 3 consisting of high-risk devices that need the strictest regulations.

Another great EFORT Congress just concluded. This one, which was held in Lisbon, was the 20th EFORT Congress. As president of EFORT starting June 2018 and ending immediately after the Congress in Lisbon, it was a special event for me, as might be expected.

The 20th EFORT Congress to be held 5 to 7 June in Lisbon, Portugal is just around the corner. When we started planning the scientific content for the congress some 18 months ago, we decided the main theme should be registries and their impact on our daily practice. At that time, we could not possibly have known that the topic of registries and their outcomes would be focused even more at the time of the congress due to the upcoming new medical device regulation process in Europe, initiated by the European Union Commission.