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Part B: Supplementary Information Sheet (SIS)
FR Recognition List Number 050 Date of Entry 09/17/2018 
FR Recognition Number 11-335
Standard
ASTM  F3141-17a
Standard Guide for Total Knee Replacement Loading Profiles
Scope/Abstract
1.1 Motion path, load history and loading modalities all contribute to the wear, degradation and damage of implanted prosthetics. Simulating a variety of functional activities promises more realistic testing for wear and damage mode evaluation. Such activities are often called activities of daily living (ADLs). ADLs identified in the literature include walking, stair ascent and decent, sit-to-stand, stand-to-sit, squatting, kneeling, cross-legged sitting, into bath, out of bath, turning and cutting motions (1-7).2 Activities other than walking gait often involve an extended range of motion and higher imposed loading conditions which have the ability to cause damage and modes of failure other than normal wear (8-10).
1.2 This document provides guidance for functional simulation that could be used to evaluate in vitro the durability of knee prosthetic devices under force control.
1.3 Function simulation is defined as the reproduction of loads and motions that might be encountered in activities of daily living but it does not necessarily cover every possible type of loading. Functional simulation differs from typical wear testing in that it attempts to exercise the prosthetic device through a variety of loading and motion conditions such as might be encountered in situ in the human body in order to reveal various damage modes and damage mechanisms that might be encountered throughout the life of the prosthetic device.
1.4 Force control is defined as the mode of control of the test machine that accepts a force level as the set point input and which utilizes a force feedback signal in a control loop to achieve that set point input. For knee simulation, the flexion motion is placed under angular displacement control, internal and external rotation is placed under torque control, and axial load, anterior posterior shear and medial lateral shear are placed under force control.
1.5 This document establishes kinetic and kinematic test conditions for several activities of daily living, including walking, turning navigational movements, stair climbing, stair descent, and squatting. The kinetic and kinematic test conditions are expressed as reference waveforms used to drive the relevant simulator machine actuators. These waveforms represent motion, as in the case of flexion extension, or kinetic signals representing the forces and moments resulting from body dynamics, gravitation and the active musculature acting across the knee.
1.6 This document does not address the assessment or measurement of damage modes, or wear or failure of the prosthetic device.
1.7 This document is a guide. As defined by ASTM in their "Form and Style for ASTM Standards" book in section C15.2, "A standard guide is a compendium of information or series of options that does not recommend a specific course of action. Guides are intended to increase the awareness of information and approaches in a given subject area. Guides may propose a series of options or instructions that offer direction without recommending a definite course of action. The purpose of this type of standard is to offer guidance based on a consensus of viewpoints but not to establish a standard practice to follow in all cases." The intent of this guide is to provide loading profiles and test procedures to develop testing that might be used for wear, durability or other types of testing of total knee replacements. As noted in this definition, a guide provides guidance on testing, but does not require specific testing. Thus, for example, if a user is unable to control one mode of force control given in the load profiles, that user is not required to perform that mode of loading.
Extent of Recognition
Complete standard
Rationale for Recognition
This standard is relevant to medical devices and is recognized on its scientific and technical merit and/or because it supports existing regulatory policies.
Transition Period
FDA recognition of ASTM F3141-17a [Rec# 11-335] will be superseded by recognition of ASTM F3141-23 [Rec# 11-406]. FDA will accept declarations of conformity, in support of premarket submissions, to [Rec# 11-335] until December 21, 2025. After this transition period, declarations of conformity to [Rec# 11-335] will not be accepted.
Public Law, CFR Citation(s) and Procode(s)*
Regulation Number Device Name Device Class Product Code
§888.3480 Metal Cemented Constrained Femorotibial Knee Prosthesis Class 3 KRN
§888.3490 Prosthesis, Knee, Non-Constrained (Metal-Carbon Reinforced Polyethylene) Cemented Class 2 KMB
§888.3490 Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-Constrained, Metal/Composite Cemented Class 2 KTX
§888.3500 Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Composite Class 2 KYK
§888.3510 Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer Class 2 KRO
§888.3520 Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer Class 2 HSX
§888.3530 Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer Class 2 HRY
§888.3550 Prosthesis, Knee, Patello/Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Polymer/Metal/Metal Class 3 KRP
§888.3550 Prosthesis, Knee, Patello/Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Polymer/Metal/Polymer Class 2 KRQ
§888.3560 Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Polymer/Metal/Polymer Class 2 JWH
§888.3560 Prosthesis, Knee, Patello/Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Uhmwpe, Pegged, Cemented, Polymer/Metal/Polymer Class 2 MBV
§888.3560 Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Polymer + Additive/Metal/Polymer + Additive Class 2 OIY
§888.3565 Prosthesis, Knee, Patello/Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Uncemented, Porous, Coated, Polymer/Metal/Polymer Class 2 MBH
N/A Prosthesis, Knee, Patello/Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Uncemented, Polymer/Metal/Polymer Class 3 LXY
N/A Prosthesis, Knee, Patello/Femorotibial, Unconstrained, Uncemented, Porous, Coated, Polymer/Metal/Polymer Class 3 MBD
N/A Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Mobile Bearing Class 3 NJL
Relevant FDA Guidance and/or Supportive Publications*
Guidance for Industry and FDA Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Knee Joint Patellofemorotibial and Femorotibial Metal/Polymer Porous-Coated Uncemented Prostheses, Issued January 2003

Appropriate Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards in Premarket Submissions for Medical Devices - Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff, issued September 2018.
FDA Technical Contact
 John Goode
  FDA/OC/CDRH/OPEQ/OHTVI/DHTVIA/
  301-796-6407
  john.goode@fda.hhs.gov
Standards Development Organization
ASTM ASTM International http://www.astm.org/
FDA Specialty Task Group (STG)
Orthopedic
*These are provided as examples and others may be applicable.
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