Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered
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 MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Apparatus LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#525 of 1000 · 1,667 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 1,667 reports
- RANK #525 of 1000
- DEATH 20 death-typed
- INJ 99 injury-typed
- MALF 1,511 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 280
- PHOTO Sleeve
Nearest event-volume peer: Sleeve, Limb, Compressible (3 report gap)
Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered sits #525 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,667 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 1.2% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.3 pp)
- INJ 5.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-24.5 pp)
- MALF 90.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+26.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material is 10% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE accounts for 78% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .
Apparatus in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Ear
Ear, Nose, And Throat Stereotaxic Instrument
1,672 reports
- Marker
Marker, Radiographic, Implantable
1,671 reports
- Apparatus (this)
Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered
1,667 reports
- Sleeve
Sleeve, Limb, Compressible
1,664 reports
- Adhesive
Adhesive, Denture, Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium (32%) And Ethylene-Oxide Homopolymer
1,663 reports
- Monitor
Monitor, Physiological, Patient (Without Arrhythmia Detection Or Alarms)
1,663 reports
What this shows Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered carries 1,667 MAUDE reports, ranked #525 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
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Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Apparatus, 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 (1,667 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (20 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Apparatus 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 Apparatus; 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.