Editorial

Even in ancient times, medical devices were utilised in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome to aid patient survival and rehabilitation in peace and war. The American Civil war, just before the second industrial revolution, saw a dramatic progress in the development of medical devices to assist the thousands of soldiers wounded in the conflict. In the 20th century, and through the third and fourth industrial revolutions, there has been a boom of a plethora of medical devices for the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems...(cont.)