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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §880.6740 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Apparatus LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#532 of 1000 · 1,734 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 1,734 reports
- RANK #532 of 1000
- DEATH 21 death-typed
- INJ 104 injury-typed
- MALF 1,572 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 280
- PHOTO Transmitters And Rece…
Nearest event-volume peer: Transmitters And Receivers, Physiological Signal, Radiofrequency (20 report gap)
Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered sits #532 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,734 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Apparatus carries 90.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 25.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.2% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.3 pp)
- INJ 6.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-24.3 pp)
- MALF 90.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+25.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Suction Problem is 23% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE accounts for 79% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .
Apparatus in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Urethroscope
Urethroscope
1,762 reports
- Agent
Agent, Absorbable Hemostatic, Non-Collagen Based
1,755 reports
- Apparatus (this)
Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered
1,734 reports
- Transmitters…
Transmitters And Receivers, Physiological Signal, Radiofrequency
1,714 reports
- Ear
Ear, Nose, And Throat Stereotaxic Instrument
1,712 reports
- Sleeve
Sleeve, Limb, Compressible
1,705 reports
What this shows Apparatus, Suction, Operating-Room, Wall Vacuum Powered carries 1,734 MAUDE reports, ranked #532 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 rose to 280 in 2025, up from an average of 62 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
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Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Apparatus: 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 (1,734 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (21 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.