BS 7313-2:1990

This standard BS 7313-2:1990 Prosthetics and orthotics is classified in these ICS categories:

• 11.180.01 Aids for disabled and handicapped persons in general
• 11.040.40 Implants for surgery, prosthetics and orthotics

This part of ISO 8548 establishes a method for describing deficiencies of the upper and lower limbs present at birth.

It describes only those bone deficiencies that are due to a failure of formation of parts, and it does so on anatomical and radiological bases. No attempt has been made to attribute any etiological or epidemiological factors.

Method by which deficiencies at birth of the upper and lower limbs can be uniformly described and reported.