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Medical Device Accelerated Aging Calculator

Sam Lazzara Resume LinkedIn Profile   Documents Services Schedule Call   +1 510 397 9739 sam@lazzara.net There are calculators for figuring out how fast you can pay off your mortgage, so why not have a calculator to figure out how fast you can age your medical devices? ASTM F1980 is the standard most people refer to for medical device accelerated aging. Its title is Accelerated Aging of Sterile Medical Devices. I am sharing my Excel Accelerated Aging Calculators workbook . It is not formally validated but I am pretty sure it is accurate. Please let me know if you find any mistakes or have improvement suggestions. CAUTION - There are three different tabs in the Excel workbook based on different assumptions for the ambient temperature. I have tabs for 20, 22 and 23 deg C. The standard mentions using 25 deg C as a conservative number but it does not "require" this temperature to be assumed. If you are feeling frisky, do what I do lately and use/justif