#Labeling Standards

[colinwilson11]

Medical Device Labeling: The Important Role Of Medical Device Label In Patient Care

Medical devices sold in the United States must comply with labeling requirements set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). All labels must contain specific information about the device such as its intended use, any potential risks or side effects, and instructions for use. Device labels provide critical safety information that helps ensure devices are used properly. The FDA regulates labeling to protect patient health.

Labels Must Clearly Identify The Device

First and foremost, a Medical Device Labeling must clearly identify the specific device. This includes stating the product name and any applicable product codes or reference numbers. Having a clear device name and identification numbers helps providers and facilities properly select, use, and track the intended device. Any trade or brand names must also be included but must not overshadow the core product identity information.

Instructions For Use Must Be Clear And Complete

Detailed instructions for use are extremely important for medical devices to be operated safely and as intended. Labels must provide step-by-step directions on how the device is to be used, prepared, fitted, applied, implanted, or operated. Pictures, diagrams or other illustrative guides can help visualize proper technique when words alone may not fully explain the process. Instructions must account for all reasonably foreseeable uses. Omitting any necessary steps could result in misuse leading to patient harm.

Packaging Labels Provide Sterility And Shelf Life Assurances

For devices distributed in single-use sterile packaging, labels must affirm the method used to sterilize the contents as well as the expiration date or shelf life. This information guarantees the continued sterility and integrity of the device up until the noted expiration date. Devices like surgical tools and implants must remain free of contaminants when used. Packaging labels demonstrate the steps taken to achieve and maintain sterile conditions.

Potential Adverse Reactions And Hazards Must Be Disclosed

Device labels must include a complete list of known or reasonably foreseeable adverse health effects or hazards from use. This involves describing any potential allergic reactions, biological risks, toxicology concerns and interactions with other devices, drugs or substances. Precautions, contraindications and any use limitations due to patient risks or conditions should also be detailed. Making providers aware of safety issues enables them to properly assess risks and benefits for individual patients.

Symbols Standardize Hazard And Safety Communications

Pictograms and symbols play an important role in medical device labeling by allowing concepts to be recognized universally without language barriers. Common symbols indicate requirements such as “Do Not Reuse”, “Sterilized Using Irradiation”, “Keep Away From Heat or Flames”, and many others defined by International Standards Organization (ISO) regulations. Having standardized symbols helps labeling information be consistently interpreted.

Product Labels Remain With The Device

Device manufacturers must ensure all labeling remains affixed or adjacent to the medical device itself throughout distribution and use. Shipping labels serve to identify devices during transportation but do not replace the requirement for complete labeling on the finished able product. Device labels need to be available anytime and anywhere the device is utilized to provide critical use and safety guidance to providers.

As described, medical device labelingserves the fundamental purpose of guiding appropriate and safe use while communicating potential risks. Complying with comprehensive FDA labeling policies supports quality patient care.

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[skunkes]

silly little scribble-that-could've-been-a-text-post

whenever i open my organized paint containers there will always be at least one Warm in the Cools and vice versa

[jofiah]

I've completely given up on following robot girl blogs that post anything horny now, it's all the same and it's very disappointing

no, I don't want to have viruses installed, or have someone reach inside and pull my guts out, or break my limbs

it's all gore basically, but it's excusable because people don't see robots getting broken as taboo, like we're not people but things it's okay to hurt and destroy

[kvothes]

i want to add a caveat to this: he’s specifically talking about published, professional, forward-facing poetry—poetry as an industry—the type of stuff that is presented to the world as an art form. not necessarily poetry as personal self-expression or therapy (which richard siken was also just talking about).

with that out of the way…timmy was really cooking here lol.

[dilf-luvr-4evr]

† Discussing Chapter 2

Horseshoe Overlook; Who is Not Without Sin

taken from John 8:1-11, A Woman Caught in Adultery (NLT ver)

links for more detailed reading: dialogue , bible

part of The Aftermath of Genesis series!

Warning! Discussions of Christianity, game spoilers!

Summary: Arthur fetches Reverend Swanson as he stumbles out of camp drunk and found him gambling. Chaos ensues.

I think this one is pretty self explanatory if you have dipped your feet in Christianity.

A Woman Caught in Adultery tells the story of people asking Jesus what to do with Mary Magdalene; an adulteress. According to the law of Moses, such acts are to be punished by stoning.

However, Jesus told them, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”

Mary Magdalene’s near death experience to me is similar to Swanson beaten up and almost getting killed by the train. And yes, Arthur’s role being Jesus lol and at the same time, just another sinner.

When all who bashed Mary Magdalene left, Jesus asked her, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

To which she answered, “No, Lord.”

“Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

We see the Reverend getting ridiculed by the gamblers as well as people in camp. If you choose to interact with camp folk as you carry Swanson back, you can hear John and Abigail saying things like, “You’re too easy on him, Arthur.” And “You've always had a soft spot for that old fool.”

But even when Swanson himself got his foot stuck and said “It appears to like this place and wants to stay,” Arthur still chose to save him, even almost getting himself killed in the process. Stood with him even though Swanson felt like everything else is against him.

Again, he started crying and said things like “Have I been bad again, Mr. Morgan? I'm sorry. I wish I was different.”

But Arthur just said, “Let’s get you home.”

I guess we can view people at camp and the gamblers as the people who condemned Mary Magdalene. But without many words, Arthur defends the Reverend (“He's a decent feller going through a bad time. Disrespect him again, and you'll find yourself in a bad time too.”).

And I’d like to think that he, out of everyone, understood best that he himself is not without sin. Made clear when he said to the gamblers, “Life is a challenge... to all of us.”

shoutout to @etherealsadchick @arthurmorganist @thedilfdiaries @prettyundeadgirl (thank you for the enthusiasm 🥺🫶🏼!!)

[muchanmocha]

5 reasons Mizi isn't a manipulator

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1. The accusation first came as verbal abuse from someone she'd just rejected

Hence it holds as much weight as his accusation of Mizi leading everyone on because she enjoys attention from the opposite sex. This scene is pivotal because she internalized many of his accusations.

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2. She has been shown unable to hide or restrain her gut reactions

She can't help but respond reflectively even when it would be more advantageous for her otherwise (ex. give an ambiguous answer to keep leading him on like he accused her of).

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3. She never led Till on

She laid it out straight with him that she can't respond to his feelings. Her honest thought of "this can help me survive" only came after they confirmed neither of them could do anything to change his feelings.

Even then it's shown that she emotionally struggles with the idea (red collar light when Till is brought up).

The thought she had clearly haunted her considering how much Till's death is affecting her.

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4. This

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5. Hiding your real emotions and thoughts isn't a sign of being a manipulator.

It's called being a people pleaser.

[grrl-beetle]

JOURNAL STANDARD

[colinwilson11]

[karlachismylife]

Whenever I meet people that can only identify the most basic types of relationships like "friends", "lovers", MAYBE if I'm lucky "mentor and mentee" or even "found family" (just don't get me started on the whole "if they're sworn brothers, romantic relationship between them is incest" spiel), every time I honestly am sad for them.

I can't imagine my life without being achingly in love with a witch girl from my pack, knowing she loves me back just as well as I know we will never share more than a single cheek kiss, myriads of minutes spent holding hands and countless poems I wrote and she kept. This is not friends or lovers, this is love that exists in its own way.

I can't imagine my life without sighing after a pretty Arlequin with the most beautiful eyebrows and a cheeky grin, knowing you will never be on the same level and being genuinely happy to stay like a loyal adoring dog at his feet. This is not friends or mentor and mentee, this is love that exists in its own way.

I can't imagine my life without latching onto a big brother that didn't know your name when you already sensed he's going to be your big bro in the frightening new step of your life. Knowing it won't be as special for him, but he'll be the best big brother you could ask for, after you strike a conversation by telling him a fun fact about whale songs. This is not friends or found family, this is love that exists in its own way.

I can't imagine my life without feeling like broken mirror shards laying on the asphalt of a secluded town outskirts road, soaked in someone's rain and knowing that this person you call himinn minn will forever be just that - your unreachable, elusive rainy summer sky. Even in a cold, lonely winter. Exchanging words of love and hot whispers, feverish fantasies over their portaits, talking into the void they left after disappearing - and still knowing it all was the most beautiful of loves shared mutuially. This isn't lovers, this is my sea being in love with their sky, and this love exists in its own way.

I can't imagine my life without running away from the dystopian reality of grey panel buildings and people talking to butchers, so fucking alone, cold and filled with bitter cigarette smoke, only to find myself a hundred years back, in the body of a Silver Age poet falling in love with a fellow runaway in Paris, the one that hears him when no one else does. Knowing the promise "Я все равно тебя ког��а-нибудь возьму — одну или вдвоем с Парижем." is just that, a promise, and it's enough. This is not friends or lovers, this is love that exists in its own way.

Yearning, devotion, solace, connection, accidents that stay with you for life, worshipping, inspiring, leading, soothing, peace, rebellion. Heart bursting with acrylic paints and calm humming of a habit.

There are so many ways people get with other people. I pity those that had only ever known the basics, but I do hope that they're happy like this.

I am happy with my collection of people that I can only ever name by their nicknames, because I can never refer to them as friends, lovers, internet acquaintances.

[hakugreenfinch]

i feel like many peoples mouthwashing analysis is... distorted by a false dichotomy of "good people" and "bad people". "curly is a bad person" "curly is a good person" i feel like trying to determine the characters' morality like santa claus is not exactly the way to think about this game. it makes me think a lot about an excellent video essay on the boy wizard books where op points out that in that world there are "no good or bad actions, only good or bad teams" - that is to say if a character is decided to be "good" they will get away with as much abuse as they like. and i feel like mouthwashing is the opposite of that, there are no "good or bad" people, there are people who do good or bad things and its those things that determine them. you dont have to be a "bad" person to do bad things but also your worst deeds wont brand you irredeemable or deserving of nothing good.

jimmy 100% believes hes not a bad person and bad things just keep happening to him because of everyone else that wont let him be "good", but ultimately hes also just a person that chooses to do more bad than good so if his worst moments dont define him what else is there? everyone else on the ship is more or less aware of their shortcomings and/or simply dont try to categorize themselves like this. swansea is a great example of someone who has given up on trying to be a "good person" and escaped the dichotomy instead of trying to fit himself in a box that doesnt even exist.

i just think discussion around curly would be a lot less heated if we just dealt with the uncomfortable fact that hes not a good or a bad person, hes just a man genuinely trying to do good that keeps failing, for one reason or another. he wants to be good and so does jimmy, we all do, but if we keep focusing too much on being "good people" it becomes a dangerous game.

(also this is why i kinda hate aus and whatnot where jimmy "gets what he deserves", the game makes it very clear that abuse is a bad action that cannot make you better than anyone.)

[ohfugecannada]

Made some Groot icons for (late) Ace week. Specifically from pics from my fave comic with him; the Jeff Loveness Groot miniseries.

[cat-doggy]

I think a, not really new, but still new pet peeve of mine is when ppl say stuff like "mspec monos aren't valid", "lesboys/turigirls/gaybians aren't valid", etc, but then proceed to say stuff like- "You can just say you're (mspec)sexual (mono)romantic or (mspec)romantic (mono)sexual!", "But nonbinary lesbians are valid!", etc. Like- you know that is one of the reasons why someone uses the mspec mono label, right? And that not every nonbinary person is afab and that multigender people exist, right?

It annoys the hell out of me- and my system members too

- Fry/Chat

[serpentface]

What's the Wardi cultural take on Akoshos sleeping with/partnering with/marrying other Akoshos?

It's not highly regulated to a degree that there are overwhelming cultural norms about it. There's a lot of societal focus on akoshos being theoretically suitable sexual partners for both men and women due to being dual-gendered, but not to an extent that relationships with One Another are stigmatized.

They also largely get to escape from the most severe concerns about penetrator/penetrated power dynamics because they're not regarded as Men (they're regarded as dual-gendered, and they're a female social class on every practical level), there's no status of manhood to Lose by receiving sexual penetration. The only real thing you see in that department is people assuming that one acts as 'the man' and one acts as 'the woman', but this is largely due to preoccupation with a notion of sex being Penetration With A Penis (and that Penetration With A Penis means that one person is in a Man's Role and one person is in a Woman's Role). But this will not be regarded as unnatural as in same-gender male relations, akoshos will Have to take up a position in this sexual dichotomy if they want to have Real Sex (Penetration With A Penis) with each other, and this is not unnatural and doesn't involve gaining or losing status since they are simultaneously male and female, not men.

So like you might see individual culture critics finding stuff to nitpick about it as their annoyance of the week or a singular Guy here or there who thinks it's weird, but this isn't a widespread norm. The vast majority of people don't give a shit about akoshos having sex with each other. The worst thing you're likely to experience Solely by virtue of being in an akoshos-akoshos relationship is someone asking you (probably with genuine curiosity) which one does the man stuff and which one does the woman stuff.

Akoshos also don't experience Hard expectations for marriage (though there are societal pressures that make marriage an attractive safety net all the same, ESPECIALLY marriage to a man) so unofficial life-partnerships between akoshos are pretty much the Only same gender partnerships between unwed people that are going to go unquestioned. ((Sworn brotherhood is technically a same gender life partnership for men that is Functionally similar to marriage (in that it's a kin-making practice between unrelated adults), but the tradition is Built upon the assumption that both parties will be married to women and that a primary goal of this kinship is to provide security for both parties' wives and children)). Marriage obligations in general are more lax in the economically secure but not Wealthy lower mercantile classes (as obligations to support and perpetuate one's family are universal, but these obligations can be filled simply by having at least One son who can get hitched, and marriages in the lower classes have no political functions and therefore there's less reason to ensure All your children are wed (there's still incentives like dowry, but this is not desperately needed when a family is economically secure)). So akoshos in this class group tend to have a Lot more freedom in terms of their life arrangements and chosen partners (though still experience the limiting frameworks of structural misogyny in other capacities).

The only thing that is out of the picture is akoshos/akoshos marriage. Marriage in this society has a predominantly reproductive function, the concept of reproductively non-viable marriages is generally considered absurd. This is not JUST this culture's form of homophobia, as marriage is a very practical arrangement at its core - both in a reproductive capacity and as bedrock for the patriarchal blood-kinship family system that forms the core social unit. The idea of same gender marriage isn't just absurd because 'ewwww weird' it's like, that Cannot work within this system, it Cannot fill core functions of what a marriage intends to do here, the ways on which marriage and kinship are BUILT makes same gender marriage practically (rather than just socially) untenable.

The sole exception to the 'marriage = reproductively viable" rule is that akoshos can be married to men (which in practice is almost always as a remarriage after a man has secured At Least an heir). This has a Little bit of internal logic here in that they perform predominantly female social roles (thus are suited to being a wife, even if they can't bear children) (and also on practical levels of them having the same legal status as women) but it's really more of a 'this is just how it's always been' kind of thing. A lot of the older pre-Wardi identity dual-gender roles that got mashed together under the 'akoshos' name would have involved marriage to a man as a second wife/concubine, in addition to his primary wife who would bear his children. Men potentially having multiple spouses has not been retained as a cultural practice, but the notion that an akoshos Can be a wife to a man has survived into modern day legal and doctrinal practices around marriage.

So like this being said, marriage as it is legally defined is only between a man and a woman, a man and an akoshos, or a woman and an akoshos. In practice the latter two are comparatively VERY rare- a man/akoshos marriage cannot provide children (though an akoshos can practically fulfill all other obligations and duties of a wife), a woman/akoshos marriage Can provide children (and while akoshos cannot function as a male heir, these children Will take their akoshos-parent's family name (though the wife retains her father's family name)), but akoshos are legally grouped with women in terms of rights and privileges (including being permanently under legal domain of their father unless they have been legally handed off to a male husband) and Cannot provide hard power patriarchal support that this family system is built upon and therefore depends upon, which makes these marriages socio-economically insecure. They can obviously still be a good partner and parent, but this is not the same as having the Legal hard power of a patriarch.

Akoshos marrying each other would be reproductively and socially nonviable, and is treated as a similarly absurd concept to a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman. It's just not a part of the marriage and kinship framework, it's not a thing that you can Do.

[randox-talore]

It’s been years but I wanna say that Star vs the Forces of evil is a funny show.

It was like “Watch this magic princess fight the forces of evil! Watch her fight these evil monsters!”

Then later, in season 1 still, it planted seeds of “Wait why are monsters evil? Is it because they’re just monsters? Can there be a good Monster?”

And then eventually the show was like “I know you’ve all been enjoying Star fighting against the forces of evil, but you know what’s really evil? Racism. Let’s watch the princess become actively anti-racist”

Beautiful character arc, but a little funny to me all these years later

[nonsensechemicals]

i think letting go of the title of "artist" has allowed me to get a better outside perspective of like. being one. and weirder views about the concept of art itself that most artists would throw me off a cliff for <-i mean. not really. i'd HOPE not

[devilsskettle]

rereading hoot by carl hiaasen because it was a favorite of mine growing up and it’s making me remember how this book had me aspiring to become an eco-terrorist at the ripe old age of 8 years old