2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Agent, Absorbable Hemostatic, Non-Collagen Based

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

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class III (highest risk, premarket approval required), regulated under 21 CFR §878.4490 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Agent LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#531 of 1000 · 1,755 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 1,755 reports
  • RANK #531 of 1000
  • DEATH 27 death-typed
  • INJ 1,316 injury-typed
  • MALF 402 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 233
  • PHOTO Urethroscope

Nearest event-volume peer: Urethroscope (7 report gap)

Agent, Absorbable Hemostatic, Non-Collagen Based sits #531 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,755 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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 →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Agent carries 75.0% INJURY-coded reports, 44.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 1.5% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.0 pp)
  • INJ 75.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+44.7 pp)
  • MALF 22.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-41.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 60% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 82% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 59% of location-tagged rows .

Agent in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Agent, Absorbable Hemostatic, Non-Collagen Based carries 1,755 MAUDE reports, ranked #531 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,316 (75.0%)
Malfunction 402 (22.9%)
Death 27 (1.5%)
Other 9 (0.5%)
1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,061 (58.4%)
403 (22.2%)
Other 197 (10.8%)
R 51 (2.8%)
Hospitalization 39 (2.1%)
Death 24 (1.3%)
Life Threatening 9 (0.5%)
O 8 (0.4%)
L 7 (0.4%)
Disability 6 (0.3%)
S 5 (0.3%)
H 3 (0.2%)
D 2 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,025
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 100
Delivered as Unsterile Product 91
Patient-Device Incompatibility 72
Reaction 68
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 66
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 55
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 41
Material Integrity Problem 29
Insufficient Device Problem Information 28
Patient Device Interaction Problem 28
Break 18
Use of Device Problem 16
Degraded 13
Product Quality Problem 12
Packaging Problem 11
Component Missing 10
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 10
Explanted 9
Migration or Expulsion of Device 7

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
97
1997: 3
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 5
01
2001: 4
02
2002: 6
03
2003: 5
04
2004: 8
05
2005: 8
06
2006: 14
07
2007: 2
08
2008: 4
11
2011: 10
12
2012: 30
13
2013: 60
14
2014: 6
15
2015: 2
16
2016: 2
17
2017: 30
18
2018: 84
19
2019: 120
20
2020: 173
21
2021: 209
22
2022: 144
23
2023: 212
24
2024: 233
25
2025: 230
26
2026: 148

Reports in 2025 (230) held close to the prior two-year average of 223.

Related Entities for Agent, Absorbable Hemostatic, Non-Collagen Based

Event Locations

1,030 (58.7%)
I 567 (32.3%)
OTHER 75 (4.3%)
HOSPITAL 56 (3.2%)
UNKNOWN 12 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 8 (0.5%)
HOME 4 (0.2%)
OPERATING ROOM 2 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs ETHICON, INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Agent: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (1,755 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (27 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Agent 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 Agent; 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.