Paediatric - Southern Crescent Malaysia

Sometimes children, especially infants, have unique needs or conditions for which specialized devices are developed. Some medical devices may require no adaptation to be safely used with children, and some may be made smaller or otherwise successfully adapted for pediatric use. Other devices are not suitable for some or most children because, for example, they cannot be made small enough or they will interfere with or be compromised by children’s growth.

Benefit using pediatric devices:
● Device choice often related to child’s size
● Compatibility of device with growth
● Durability (e.g., resistance to material fatigue and failure related to children’s activities)
● Site stability (e.g., protection against dislodgement, migration, or perforation)
● Biocompatibility of materials with tissue in children of different ages
● Pressure on tissue
● Infection hazards (e.g., passage of a device through skin or colonization of device surface by antibiotic-resistant biofilm)
● Electrical or radiation hazards