2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Aid, Transfer

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, Transfer LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#435 of 1000 · 2,510 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 2,510 reports
  • RANK #435 of 1000
  • DEATH 25 death-typed
  • INJ 65 injury-typed
  • MALF 712 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 881
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Measurement, Blood-Pressure, Non-Invasive (7 report gap)

Aid, Transfer sits #435 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,510 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 1.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
  • INJ 2.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.8 pp)
  • MALF 28.4% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-36.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device Slipped is 34% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNKNOWN accounts for 71% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 90% of location-tagged rows .

Aid, Transfer in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Aid, Transfer carries 2,510 MAUDE reports, ranked #435 of 1000.

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

Event Types

1,690 (67.3%)
Malfunction 712 (28.4%)
Injury 65 (2.6%)
Death 25 (1.0%)
Other 18 (0.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 2,205 (87.1%)
224 (8.8%)
Required Intervention 28 (1.1%)
Death 26 (1.0%)
Hospitalization 25 (1.0%)
R 9 (0.4%)
O 5 (0.2%)
H 4 (0.2%)
S 4 (0.2%)
Disability 2 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Device Slipped 51
Break 31
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 8
Insufficient Information 7
Mechanical Problem 7
Detachment of Device or Device Component 6
Use of Device Problem 6
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 4
Loose or Intermittent Connection 4
Detachment Of Device Component 3
Fracture 3
Patient-Device Incompatibility 3
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 2
Crack 2
Device Fell 2
Entrapment of Device 2
Material Integrity Problem 2
Material Separation 2
Material Split, Cut or Torn 2
Solder Joint Fracture 2

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
95
1995: 1
97
1997: 2
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 5
01
2001: 2
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 1
08
2008: 7
09
2009: 13
10
2010: 7
11
2011: 125
12
2012: 427
13
2013: 881
14
2014: 833
15
2015: 39
16
2016: 17
17
2017: 16
18
2018: 15
19
2019: 15
20
2020: 11
21
2021: 5
22
2022: 50
23
2023: 12
24
2024: 7
25
2025: 5
26
2026: 1

Related Entities for Aid, Transfer

Top Manufacturers

UNKNOWN 741
INVAMEX 297

Event Locations

2,267 (90.3%)
HOME 83 (3.3%)
I 57 (2.3%)
NURSING HOME 38 (1.5%)
HOSPITAL 33 (1.3%)
NO INFORMATION 14 (0.6%)
OTHER 14 (0.6%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare UNKNOWN vs INVAMEX →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Aid, Transfer, 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 (2,510 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (25 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Aid, Transfer 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, Transfer; 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.