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The Arthrex NanoScope system is intended to be used as an endoscopic video camera in a variety of endoscopic diagnostic and surgical procedures, including but not limited to: orthopedic, spine, laparoscopic, urologic, sinuscopic, and plastic surgical procedures. The device is also intended to be used as an accessory for microscopic surgery.
The Arthrex NanoScope System provides image processing and digital documentation for endoscopic procedures. The system utilizes a handpiece which provides distal LED illumination to the surgical site using a fiber optic bundle surrounding a high-resolution camera sensor.
The provided text is a 510(k) premarket notification letter and summary for the Arthrex NanoScope System. It describes the device, its intended use, and arguments for substantial equivalence to predicate devices. However, this document does not contain information about acceptance criteria or a study that proves the device meets those criteria in the context of AI/ML performance.
This document specifically states that:
- "Nonclinical (bench) testing was performed to demonstrate substantial equivalence to the predicate regarding thermal safety, electrical safety, optical performance, environmental conditions, power requirements, image capture, and video output and resolution."
- "An engineering analysis was performed to address the substantial equivalence of the field of view and the working diameter compared to the predicate device."
This indicates that the substantial equivalence was established through bench testing and engineering analysis for hardware performance, not through clinical studies or AI/ML performance evaluations against specific acceptance criteria. The device is an endoscopic video camera system, and the submission is to expand its indications for use (adding spine procedures) and extend the shelf life of a sterile component, not for a new AI/ML-driven diagnostic or assistive feature.
Therefore, I cannot extract the requested information regarding AI/ML acceptance criteria and study details from the provided text. The questions posed are highly relevant to AI/ML medical devices, but this document describes a traditional medical device submission (an endoscopic camera) where such metrics and studies are not typically required for regulatory clearance unless the device incorporates an AI/ML component with a diagnostic or assistive function.
§ 876.1500 Endoscope and accessories.
(a)
Identification. An endoscope and accessories is a device used to provide access, illumination, and allow observation or manipulation of body cavities, hollow organs, and canals. The device consists of various rigid or flexible instruments that are inserted into body spaces and may include an optical system for conveying an image to the user's eye and their accessories may assist in gaining access or increase the versatility and augment the capabilities of the devices. Examples of devices that are within this generic type of device include cleaning accessories for endoscopes, photographic accessories for endoscopes, nonpowered anoscopes, binolcular attachments for endoscopes, pocket battery boxes, flexible or rigid choledochoscopes, colonoscopes, diagnostic cystoscopes, cystourethroscopes, enteroscopes, esophagogastroduodenoscopes, rigid esophagoscopes, fiberoptic illuminators for endoscopes, incandescent endoscope lamps, biliary pancreatoscopes, proctoscopes, resectoscopes, nephroscopes, sigmoidoscopes, ureteroscopes, urethroscopes, endomagnetic retrievers, cytology brushes for endoscopes, and lubricating jelly for transurethral surgical instruments. This section does not apply to endoscopes that have specialized uses in other medical specialty areas and that are covered by classification regulations in other parts of the device classification regulations.(b)
Classification —(1)Class II (special controls). The device, when it is an endoscope disinfectant basin, which consists solely of a container that holds disinfectant and endoscopes and accessories; an endoscopic magnetic retriever intended for single use; sterile scissors for cystoscope intended for single use; a disposable, non-powered endoscopic grasping/cutting instrument intended for single use; a diagnostic incandescent light source; a fiberoptic photographic light source; a routine fiberoptic light source; an endoscopic sponge carrier; a xenon arc endoscope light source; an endoscope transformer; an LED light source; or a gastroenterology-urology endoscopic guidewire, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 876.9.(2) Class I for the photographic accessories for endoscope, miscellaneous bulb adapter for endoscope, binocular attachment for endoscope, eyepiece attachment for prescription lens, teaching attachment, inflation bulb, measuring device for panendoscope, photographic equipment for physiologic function monitor, special lens instrument for endoscope, smoke removal tube, rechargeable battery box, pocket battery box, bite block for endoscope, and cleaning brush for endoscope. The devices subject to this paragraph (b)(2) are exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807of this chapter, subject to the limitations in § 876.9.