The Medical Devices industry covers over 8,000 types of products, ranging from simple bandages and spectacles, through life maintaining implantable devices, equipment to screen and diagnose disease and health conditions, to the most sophisticated diagnostic imaging and minimal invasive surgery equipment. The IHS Medical Devices Standards Collections were designed to ensure compliance to the EU Directives that define the ¡°essential requirements¡± (e.g., protection of health and safety) that goods must meet when they are placed on the EU market.