Medicalgorithmics Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System
Applicant
Medicalgorithmics S.A.
Product Code
DSI · Cardiovascular
Decision Date
Jul 11, 2018
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Abbreviated
Regulation
21 CFR 870.1025
Device Class
Class 2
Indications for Use
PocketECG CRS is intended to be used for: 1. Cardiac monitoring of patients undergoing a cardiac rehabilitation program. Its main feature is patient monitoring during previously planned training sessions and training assistance to achieve desired intensity and duration of workout. Training session parameters such as heart rate threshold, session duration (time intervals and number of repetitions) are defined by the physician for each patient individually. Additionally, the transmitter allows continuous ECG monitoring between trainings, during patient daily activities. 2. All patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of an acute myocardial infarction (MI) or chronic stable angina (CSA), or who during hospitalization have undergone coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), cardiac valve surgery, or cardiac transplantation, referred to an early outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or secondary prevention (CR) program. 3. All patients evaluated in an outpatient setting who within the past 12 months have experienced an acute myocardial infarction (MI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), cardiac valve surgery, or cardiac transplantation, or who have chronic stable angina (CSA) and have not already participated in an early outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or secondary prevention (CR) program for the qualifying event or diagnosis, referred to such a program. 4. Patients who require monitoring for: a) non-life threatening arrhythmias such as supraventricular (e.g. atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, PACs, PSVT) and ventricular ectopy; b) evaluation of bradyarrhythmias and internittent bundle branch block, including after cardiovascular surgery and myocardial infarction; and c) arrhythmias associated with co-morbid conditions such as hyperthyroidism or chronic lung disease; 5. PocketECG CRS can be used to monitor the training session in hospital, rehabilitation center or physicians office under supervision of qualified staff.
Device Story
Ambulatory system for cardiac rehabilitation and ECG monitoring; acquires ECG signals and physical activity data via accelerometer; transmits data via cellular network to remote server; reviewed by medical staff at Monitoring Center. Physician defines training parameters (heart rate thresholds, session duration). System classifies heart beats and detects rhythm abnormalities. Used in clinics, rehabilitation centers, or patient daily life. Output allows clinicians to monitor training intensity and duration; facilitates secondary prevention and arrhythmia management. Benefits include remote oversight of rehabilitation and continuous cardiac monitoring.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. Arrhythmia detection algorithms (PECGT-III) tested per IEC 60601-2-47:2012. Wireless transmission performance tested per PTCRB and CTIA requirements for GSM and WCDMA.
Technological Characteristics
Ambulatory ECG monitor with integrated accelerometer. Cellular network connectivity. Hardware identical to K124060. Complies with AAMI/ANSI ES60601-1, IEC 60601-1-6, IEC 62366, HA60601-1-11, IEC 60601-2-47, and IEC 60601-1-2. Software-based arrhythmia detection and beat classification.
Indications for Use
Indicated for patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation programs, including those post-MI, post-CABG, post-PCI, post-valve surgery, post-transplant, or with chronic stable angina. Also indicated for patients requiring monitoring for non-life-threatening arrhythmias (supraventricular, ventricular ectopy), bradyarrhythmias, intermittent bundle branch block, or arrhythmias associated with co-morbidities like hyperthyroidism or chronic lung disease. Contraindicated for patients with recent acute cardiac events, unstable angina, severe valvular disease, decompensated heart failure, acute pulmonary embolus, myocarditis, thrombophlebitis, life-threatening arrhythmias requiring inpatient care, or physical disabilities precluding exercise.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
The arrhythmia detector and alarm device monitors an electrocardiogram and is designed to produce a visible or audible signal or alarm when atrial or ventricular arrhythmia, such as premature contraction or ventricular fibrillation, occurs.
Special Controls
*Classification.* Class II (special controls). The guidance document entitled “Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Arrhythmia Detector and Alarm” will serve as the special control. See § 870.1 for the availability of this guidance document.
Predicate Devices
Medicalgorithmics Unified Arrhythmia Diagnostic System (K124060)
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July 11, 2018
Medicalgorithmics S.A. % Przemyslaw Tadla Strategy Director Medicalgorithmics US Holding Corporation 2711 Centerville Rd Ste 400 Wilmington, Delaware 19808
Re: K173969
Trade/Device Name: Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System PocketECG CRS Regulation Number: 21 CFR 870.1025 Regulation Name: Arrhythmia Detector And Alarm (Including ST-Segment Measurement And Alarm) Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: DSI, MHX Dated: June 13, 2018 Received: June 15, 2018
Dear Przemyslaw Tadla:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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**For**
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# Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known) K173969
### Device Name
Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System PocketECG CRS
### Indications for Use (Describe)
PocketECG CRS is intended to be used for:
1. Cardiac monitoring of patients undergoing a cardiac rehabilitation program. Its main feature is patient monitoring during previously planned training sessions and training assistance to achieve desired intensity and duration of workout. Training session parameters such as heart rate threshold, session duration (time intervals and number of repetitions) are defined by the physician for each patient individually. Additionally, the transmitter allows continuous ECG monitoring between trainings, during patient daily activities.
2. All patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of an acute myocardial infarction (MI) or chronic stable angina (CSA), or who during hospitalization have undergone coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), cardiac valve surgery, or cardiac transplantation, referred to an early outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or secondary prevention (CR) program.
3. All patients evaluated in an outpatient setting who within the past 12 months have experienced an acute myocardial infarction (MI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), cardiac valve surgery, or cardiac transplantation, or who have chronic stable angina (CSA) and have not already participated in an early outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or secondary prevention (CR) program for the qualifying event or diagnosis, referred to such a program.
4. Patients who require monitoring for: a) non-life threatening arrhythmias such as supraventricular (e.g. atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, PACs, PSVT) and ventricular ectopy; b) evaluation of bradyarrhythmias and internittent bundle branch block, including after cardiovascular surgery and myocardial infarction; and c) arrhythmias associated with co-morbid conditions such as hyperthyroidism or chronic lung disease;
5. PocketECG CRS can be used to monitor the training session in hospital, rehabilitation center or physicians office under supervision of qualified staff.
Type of Use (Select one or both, as applicable)
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# Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known) K173969
### Device Name
Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System PocketECG CRS
Indications for Use (Describe)
Contraindications:
1. Patients with recent change in the resting ECG suggesting significant ischemia, recent MI, or other acute cardiac event,
2. Patients with: unstable angina, symptomatic severe aortic stenosis or other valvular disease, decompensated
symptomatic heart failure. acute pulmonary embolus or pulmonary infarction, acute myocarditis, or acute thrombophlebitis
3. Patients with potentially life-threatening arrhythmias who require inpatient monitoring,
4. Patients with physical disability that would preclude safe and adequate exercise performance, or with acute noncardiac disorder that may affect exercise performance or may be aggravated by exercise (e.g., infec-tion, thyrotoxicosis),
5. The PocketECG CRS is not intended for use in surgical rooms, intensive care units, and emergency vehicles. The transmitter is MR unsafe and should not be used in any magnetic resonance environment.
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Over-The-Counter Use (21 CFR 801 Subpart C)
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June 11, 2018 - K173969
# 510(k) Summary
#### l. Submitter's name and address:
| Medicalgorithmics S.A. | Aleje Jerozolimskie 81,<br>02-001 Warsaw, Poland |
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| Contact Person: | Przemysław Tadla<br>Phone: (+1) 302 2615184<br>Email: p.tadla@medicalgorithmics.com |
| Date Prepared: | 2018-02-28 |
#### II. Device
| Trade name: | Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System PocketECG CRS |
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| Regulation number: | 870.1025 |
| Classification name: | Arrhythmia detector and alarm (including ST-segment<br>measurement and alarm) Regulatory |
| Class: | Class II, Special Controls |
| Procode: | DSI |
| Other: | MHX |
#### lll. Substantial Equivalence
The selected predicate devices are:
- 1. Medicalgorithmics Unified Arrhythmia Diagnostic System, K124060 (Primary Predicate Device):
- 2. Mortara Instruments Inc., Quinton Q-TEL RMS, K041607.
#### IV. Device description
Medicalgorithmics Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System PocketECG CRS is an ambulatory system which can be used for patient monitoring during previously planned cardiac rehabilitation training sessions and training assistance to achieve desired intensity and duration of workout. The system measures patient's physical activity and ECG signal, classifies all detected heart beats and recognizes rhythm abnormalities. PocketECG CRS can be also used for patient's monitoring between training sessions as an ambulatory ECG monitor which analyzes electrographic signal, classifies all detected heart beats and recognizes rhythm abnormalities. All
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detection results, including annotations for every detected heart beats and the entire ECG signal are transmitted via cellular network to a remote server accessible by a Monitoring Center for review by trained medical staff.
#### V. Indications for use
PocketECG CRS is intended to be used for:
- 1. Cardiac monitoring of patients undergoing a cardiac rehabilitation program. Its main feature is patient monitoring during previously planned training sessions and training assistance to achieve desired intensity and duration of workout. Training session parameters such as heart rate threshold, session duration (time intervals and number of repetitions) are defined by the physician for each patient individually. Additionally, the transmitter allows continuous ECG monitoring between trainings, during patient daily activities.
- 2. All patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of an acute myocardial infarction (MI) or chronic stable angina (CSA), or who during hospitalization have undergone coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), cardiac valve surgery, or cardiac transplantation, referred to an early outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or secondary prevention (CR) program.
- 3. All patients evaluated in an outpatient setting who within the past 12 months have experienced an acute myocardial infarction (MI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), cardiac valve surgery, or cardiac transplantation, or who have chronic stable angina (CSA) and have not already participated in an early outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or secondary prevention (CR) program for the qualifying event or diagnosis, referred to such a program.
- 4. Patients who require monitoring for: a) non-life threatening arrhythmias such as supraventricular tachycardias (e.g. atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, PACs, PSVT) and ventricular ectopy; b) evaluation of bradyarrhythmias and intermittent bundle branch block, including after cardiovascular surgery and myocardial infarction; and c) arrhythmias associated with co-morbid conditions such as hyperthyroidism or chronic lung disease;
- 5. PocketECG CRS can be used to monitor the training session in hospital, rehabilitation center or physician's office under supervision of qualified staff.
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Contraindications:
- 1. Patients with recent change in the resting ECG suggesting significant ischemia. recent MI, or other acute cardiac event,
- 2. Patients with: unstable angina, symptomatic severe aortic stenosis or other valvular disease, decompensated symptomatic heart failure, acute pulmonary embolus or pulmonary infarction, acute myocarditis or pericarditis, or acute thrombophlebitis
- 3. Patients with potentially life-threatening arrhythmias who require inpatient monitoring.
- 4. Patients with physical disability that would preclude safe and adequate exercise performance, or with acute noncardiac disorder that may affect exercise performance or may be aggravated by exercise (e.g., infection, thyrotoxicosis),
- 5. The PocketECG CRS is not intended for use in surgical rooms, intensive care units, and emergency vehicles. The transmitter is MR unsafe and should not be used in any magnetic resonance environment.
#### VI. Technological comparison to predicate devices
Primary Predicate Device (K124060):
- Similarities
- o The subject device and the predicate device analyze electrographic signal, classify all detected heart beats and recognize rhythm abnormalities.
- o The subject device and the predicate device send all detection results, including annotations for every detected heart beat and the entire ECG signal via cellular network to a remote server.
- The subject and predicate device utilize the same hardware. о
- Software of subject device has additional features used during monitoring O of training sessions, however its architecture, software requirements, and basic features remains the same.
- o The subject device meets the same electrical safety, performance, EMC and wireless requirements as the predicate device.
- Differences
- o The predicate device is intended to be used for ambulatory diagnostic monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, while the subject device is intended to be used for cardiac monitoring of patients undergoing a cardiac rehabilitation program.
- o User interfaces of the predicate device and the subject device differs according to their intended use.
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# Predicate Device (K041607):
- Similarities -
- The subject device and the predicate device are both telemetric systems o used for monitoring patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation.
- The subject device and the predicate device use individual patient monitors O to acquire and transmit ECG data using wireless transmission to central monitoring unit. Central monitoring units (PCs with proprietary software) allow display of full ECG waveforms along with arrhythmia annotations.
- The subject device does not have technological differences in comparison O to the predicate device which can influence its safety and effectiveness.
- Differences:
- The predicate device uses short range wireless communication (e.g. o Bluetooth) which limits it use only to trainings held in rehabilitation facilities within short distance from the transmitter, while the subject device uses cellular network, which allows to perform trainings in rehabilitation facilities without above mentioned limitation.
- The predicate device monitors only patient's ECG, while the subject device O monitors ECG with corresponding level of patient's physical activity (through the use of accelerometer).
#### Guidance documents VII.
The following quidance documents have been taken into account during preparation of this submission:
- Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Arrhythmia Detector and -Alarm, October 28, 2003
- Guidance for the Content of Premarket Submissions for Software Contained in Medical Devices, May 11 2005
- Radio Frequency Wireless Technology in Medical Devices Guidance for -Industry and FDA Staff, August 14, 2013
- -Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices, Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff, October 2, 2014
- Use of International Standard ISO 10993-1, "Biological evaluation of medical devices - Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process", Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff, June 16, 2016
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#### VIII. Referenced standards
The Medicalgorithmics Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System PocketECG CRS meets the requirements of following performance standards in accordance with FDA Class II Special Controls Guidance Document Arrhythmia Detector and Alarm.
- . AAMI / ANSI ES60601-1:2005/(R)2012 And A1:2012,, C1:2009/(R)2012 And A2:2010/(R)2012 (Consolidated Text) Medical Electrical Equipment - Part 1: General Requirements For Basic Safety And Essential Performance (IEC 60601-1:2005, Mod)
- IEC 60601-1-6 Edition 3.1 2013-10, Medical Electrical Equipment Part 1-6: . General Requirements For Basic Safety And Essential Performance - Collateral Standard: Usability
- AAMI / ANSI / IEC 62366:2007/(R)2013 , Medical Devices Application Of ● Usability Engineering To Medical Devices
- AAMI / ANSI HA60601-1-11:2015, Medical Electrical Equipment -- Part 1-11: . General Requirements For Basic Safety And Essential Performance -- Collateral Standard: Requirements For Medical Electrical Equipment And Medical Electrical Equipment And Medical Electrical Systems Used In The Home Healthcare Environment (IEC 60601-1-11:2015 Mod)
- AAMI / ANSI / IEC 60601-2-47:2012, Medical Electrical Equipment -- Part 2-47: ● Particular Requirements For The Basic Safety And Essential Performance Of Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Systems
- AAMI / ANSI / IEC 60601-1-2:2007/(R)2012, Medical Electrical Equipment Part ● 1-2: General Requirements For Basic Safety And Essential Performance -Collateral Standard: Electromagnetic Compatibility - Requirements And Tests (Edition 3).
Medicalgorithmics has assessed the PocketECG CRS for wireless coexistence in accordance with the FDA guidance document Radio Frequency Wireless Technology in Medical Devices (August 14, 2013). This include FCC & PTCRB performance testing.
#### IX. Performance data
Arrhythmia detection algorithms implemented in PocketECG CRS (PECGT-III) and PocketECG III (PECGT-IIIR) have been subject for performance testing according to IEC 60601-2-47:2012 (AAMI / ANSI / IEC 60601-2-47:2012) Test results were considered to be in complaint with standard requirements.
Wireless transmission performance has been tested according to PTCRB and CTIA requirements for GSM and WCDMA transmissions.
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#### X. Substantial Equivalence Conclusion
Medicalgorithmics Unified Cardiac Rehabilitation System PocketECG CRS is safe, effective and substantially equivalent to the predicate devices as supported by the descriptive information and the performance testing. The subject device is composed of off-the-shelf, certified devices and components fully complying with the US electrical safety and EMC standards.
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