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Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic

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 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#411 of 1000 · 2,845 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 2,845 reports
  • RANK #411 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 1,947 injury-typed
  • MALF 844 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2008: 203
  • PHOTO Spinal Vertebral Body…

Nearest event-volume peer: Spinal Vertebral Body Replacement Device (2 report gap)

Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic sits #411 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,845 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 68.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+38.0 pp)
  • MALF 29.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-34.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 53% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer JOHNSON & JOHNSON SURGICAL VISION, INC. accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic carries 2,845 MAUDE reports, ranked #411 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,947 (68.4%)
Malfunction 844 (29.7%)
Other 31 (1.1%)
22 (0.8%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,164 (36.8%)
818 (25.8%)
Other 790 (24.9%)
R 186 (5.9%)
O 91 (2.9%)
Hospitalization 57 (1.8%)
S 31 (1.0%)
H 15 (0.5%)
Disability 10 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 714
Contamination 184
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 107
Insufficient Information 72
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 48
Detachment of Device or Device Component 28
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 22
Difficult to Remove 18
Leak/Splash 17
Mechanical Problem 17
Particulates 17
Disconnection 16
Delivered as Unsterile Product 15
Manufacturing, Packaging or Shipping Problem 14
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 12
Patient-Device Incompatibility 11
Defective Component 10
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 10
Device Handling Problem 9
Break 7

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 15
95
1995: 7
96
1996: 30
97
1997: 56
98
1998: 32
99
1999: 40
00
2000: 53
01
2001: 42
02
2002: 19
03
2003: 27
04
2004: 19
05
2005: 61
06
2006: 90
07
2007: 58
08
2008: 203
09
2009: 34
10
2010: 157
11
2011: 106
12
2012: 140
13
2013: 83
14
2014: 119
15
2015: 68
16
2016: 136
17
2017: 162
18
2018: 113
19
2019: 156
20
2020: 132
21
2021: 157
22
2022: 184
23
2023: 107
24
2024: 107
25
2025: 102
26
2026: 30

Related Entities for Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic

Top Manufacturers

JOHNSON & JOHNSON SURGICAL VISION, INC. 241
ABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS 226
BAUSCH + LOMB 104

Event Locations

1,742 (61.2%)
I 834 (29.3%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 90 (3.2%)
HOSPITAL 77 (2.7%)
UNKNOWN 35 (1.2%)
INVALID DATA 20 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 20 (0.7%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 10 (0.4%)
OTHER 9 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 4 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 1 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare JOHNSON & JOHNSON SURGICAL VISION, INC. vs ABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic, 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 (2,845 here).

Spinal Vertebral Body Replacement Device 2,843 Pin, Fixation, Smooth 2,848 Culture Media, Enriched 2,839 Instrument 2,855

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1 Aligner, Sequential 1

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 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 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic; 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.