Background on post-market surveillance globallyPMS has been a pivotal topic. The European regulations (Medical Devices Regulation (2017/745, MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostic Devices Regulation (2017/746, IVDR)) officially defined the term PMS (Article 2(60)). In 2019, the U.S. FDA introduced the term Total Product Life Cycle (TPLC) as a "holistic” perspective with the FDA throughout the entire lifec..