Aid, Transfer
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 I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §890.5050 (Physical Medicine panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Aid, Transfer LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#450 of 1000 · 2,515 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 2,515 reports
- RANK #450 of 1000
- DEATH 25 death-typed
- INJ 65 injury-typed
- MALF 717 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2013: 881
- PHOTO Prosthesis
Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer (5 report gap)
Aid, Transfer sits #450 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,515 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 →
Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm
Aid, Transfer carries 28.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 36.3pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
- INJ 2.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.7 pp)
- MALF 28.5% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-36.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 28% 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
- Mattress
Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure
2,524 reports
- Gauze/Sponge
Gauze/Sponge, Internal, X-Ray Detectable
2,521 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
2,520 reports
- Aid, Transfer (this)
Aid, Transfer
2,515 reports
- Suture
Suture, Absorbable, Natural
2,489 reports
- Tube
Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)
2,475 reports
What this shows Aid, Transfer carries 2,515 MAUDE reports, ranked #450 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports fell to 5 in 2025, down from an average of 10 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Aid, Transfer
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Aid, Transfer: 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 (2,515 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (25 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.