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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.

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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

reports

What this shows Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered carries 1,667 MAUDE reports, ranked #525 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,511 (90.6%)
Injury 99 (5.9%)
Death 20 (1.2%)
19 (1.1%)
Other 18 (1.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,417 (84.1%)
Other 140 (8.3%)
Required Intervention 67 (4.0%)
Death 18 (1.1%)
Hospitalization 16 (1.0%)
Life Threatening 7 (0.4%)
R 6 (0.4%)
L 5 (0.3%)
O 3 (0.2%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.1%)
D 1 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 90
Smoking 72
Leak/Splash 64
Delivered as Unsterile Product 63
Break 59
Suction Problem 55
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 50
Fluid/Blood Leak 49
Overheating of Device 43
Suction Failure 42
Detachment of Device or Device Component 40
Temperature Problem 36
Packaging Problem 34
Crack 32
Mechanical Problem 30
Decrease in Pressure 29
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 26
Material Fragmentation 21
Contamination 17
Obstruction of Flow 15

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 13
93
1993: 5
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 6
98
1998: 4
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 4
01
2001: 6
02
2002: 83
03
2003: 26
04
2004: 9
05
2005: 13
06
2006: 11
07
2007: 24
08
2008: 44
09
2009: 40
10
2010: 51
11
2011: 67
12
2012: 242
13
2013: 47
14
2014: 32
15
2015: 52
16
2016: 99
17
2017: 45
18
2018: 50
19
2019: 65
20
2020: 65
21
2021: 65
22
2022: 72
23
2023: 59
24
2024: 65
25
2025: 280
26
2026: 14

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Event Locations

1,039 (62.3%)
I 349 (20.9%)
HOSPITAL 243 (14.6%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 5 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
HOME 2 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.1%)
OTHER 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.1%)

Compare STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE vs CARDINAL HEALTH →

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.

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.