Specification and performance standards represent distinctly different criteria for safe and effective cardiovascular materials and devices, in distinct areas of materials and device conversions, with consideration of implant as well as physiological assault. Cardiovascular device failures need more definitive, realistic, and creative approaches to devising standards of performance with relevance to the physiological environment.

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