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Accessories, Arthroscopic

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Accessories, Arthroscopic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#315 of 1000 · 4,870 reports · 2000–2026

  • BOOK 4,870 reports
  • RANK #315 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 738 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,104 malfunction
  • SPAN 2000–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 676
  • PHOTO Accessories

Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Cleaning, For Endoscope (13 report gap)

Accessories, Arthroscopic sits #315 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,870 MAUDE reports spanning 2000–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 15.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.3 pp)
  • MALF 84.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+19.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 49% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 37% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Accessories, Arthroscopic in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Accessories, Arthroscopic carries 4,870 MAUDE reports, ranked #315 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 4,104 (84.3%)
Injury 738 (15.2%)
Other 20 (0.4%)
8 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

3,999 (80.9%)
Required Intervention 418 (8.5%)
Other 391 (7.9%)
R 76 (1.5%)
O 34 (0.7%)
Hospitalization 19 (0.4%)
Disability 2 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 2,000
Detachment of Device or Device Component 270
Degraded 221
Material Deformation 209
Material Twisted/Bent 164
Material Separation 159
Mechanical Jam 154
Difficult to Open or Close 143
Detachment Of Device Component 101
Fracture 98
Device Damaged by Another Device 94
Material Fragmentation 80
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 70
Device-Device Incompatibility 70
Use of Device Problem 64
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 48
Dull, Blunt 44
Corroded 40
Physical Resistance/Sticking 36
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 35

Yearly Trend

00
2000: 6
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 29
03
2003: 31
04
2004: 10
05
2005: 33
06
2006: 33
07
2007: 40
08
2008: 47
09
2009: 38
10
2010: 50
11
2011: 57
12
2012: 63
13
2013: 53
14
2014: 80
15
2015: 185
16
2016: 359
17
2017: 224
18
2018: 307
19
2019: 358
20
2020: 340
21
2021: 389
22
2022: 334
23
2023: 492
24
2024: 676
25
2025: 561
26
2026: 73

Related Entities for Accessories, Arthroscopic

Top Manufacturers

SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. 1,503
DEPUY MITEK LLC US 775
ARTHREX, INC. 731
STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE 410
ARTHROCARE CORPORATION 275
ARTHROCARE CORP. 264
MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL 81
DEPUY MITEK 67

Event Locations

2,595 (53.3%)
I 1,854 (38.1%)
HOSPITAL 297 (6.1%)
NO INFORMATION 50 (1.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 45 (0.9%)
OTHER 24 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 1 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. vs DEPUY MITEK LLC US →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Accessories, Arthroscopic, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (4,870 here).

Accessories, Cleaning, For Endoscope 4,857 Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser 4,856 Ureteroscope And Accessories, Flexible/Rigid 4,829 Stimulator, Nerve 4,827

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0 Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Accessories, Arthroscopic are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Accessories, Arthroscopic; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.