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Adaptor, Hygiene

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 Adaptor, Hygiene LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#404 of 1000 · 2,907 reports · 1995–2026

  • BOOK 2,907 reports
  • RANK #404 of 1000
  • DEATH 10 death-typed
  • INJ 408 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,107 malfunction
  • SPAN 1995–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 705
  • PHOTO Syringe, Antistick

Nearest event-volume peer: Syringe, Antistick (2 report gap)

Adaptor, Hygiene sits #404 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,907 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 14.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-16.4 pp)
  • MALF 72.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+8.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Crack is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVAMEX accounts for 53% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .

Adaptor, Hygiene in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Adaptor, Hygiene carries 2,907 MAUDE reports, ranked #404 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,107 (72.5%)
Injury 408 (14.0%)
374 (12.9%)
Death 10 (0.3%)
Other 7 (0.2%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 2,057 (69.3%)
664 (22.4%)
Required Intervention 104 (3.5%)
Hospitalization 68 (2.3%)
R 38 (1.3%)
Death 10 (0.3%)
S 8 (0.3%)
O 7 (0.2%)
H 6 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Crack 216
Break 162
Collapse 57
Bent 47
Material Integrity Problem 42
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 34
Fracture 31
Insufficient Information 25
Material Twisted/Bent 25
Unstable 22
Detachment of Device or Device Component 19
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 16
Mechanical Problem 16
Loose or Intermittent Connection 13
Unintended Movement 13
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 12
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 12
Material Fragmentation 12
Split 12
Device Slipped 10

Yearly Trend

95
1995: 1
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 1
09
2009: 1
10
2010: 6
11
2011: 21
12
2012: 114
13
2013: 553
14
2014: 705
15
2015: 702
16
2016: 411
17
2017: 48
18
2018: 36
19
2019: 50
20
2020: 32
21
2021: 27
22
2022: 45
23
2023: 59
24
2024: 37
25
2025: 47
26
2026: 5

Related Entities for Adaptor, Hygiene

Top Manufacturers

INVAMEX 870
UNKNOWN 666
INVACARE TAYLOR STREET 111

Event Locations

1,899 (65.3%)
I 641 (22.1%)
HOME 213 (7.3%)
NO INFORMATION 72 (2.5%)
HOSPITAL 33 (1.1%)
OTHER 33 (1.1%)
NURSING HOME 14 (0.5%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare INVAMEX vs UNKNOWN →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Adaptor, Hygiene, 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 (2,907 here).

Syringe, Antistick 2,905 System, Photopheresis, Extracorporeal 2,915 Assay, Glycosylated Hemoglobin 2,919 Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate 2,895

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (10 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter 10 Cabinet, Table And Tray, Anesthesia 10 Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical 10 Collector 10

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Adaptor, Hygiene 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 Adaptor, Hygiene; 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.