Published: 22 Jun 2026
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) For Prosthetic and Orthotic Materials in the Health Care Sector
Volume 1
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become a comprehensive analytical framework for quantifying the environmental performance of medical devices throughout their entire life cycles. This review integrates methodological fundamentals, database selection guidelines, and impact assessment approaches relevant to healthcare applications, with a particular focus on prosthetic and orthotic technologies. By integrating ISO-compliant modeling practices, robust inventory datasets such as ELCD 3.2 and ecoinvent, and modern impact assessment methods such as ReCiPe..