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Apparatus, Suction, Single Patient Use, Portable, Nonpowered

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

#328 of 1000 · 4,648 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 4,648 reports
  • RANK #328 of 1000
  • DEATH 13 death-typed
  • INJ 1,600 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,820 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2017: 260
  • PHOTO Table

Nearest event-volume peer: Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered (And Accessories) (14 report gap)

Apparatus, Suction, Single Patient Use, Portable, Nonpowered sits #328 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,648 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 34.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+4.0 pp)
  • MALF 60.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-3.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 43% 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, Single Patient Use, Portable, Nonpowered carries 4,648 MAUDE reports, ranked #328 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,820 (60.7%)
Injury 1,600 (34.4%)
Other 160 (3.4%)
55 (1.2%)
Death 13 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,137 (43.3%)
Required Intervention 1,319 (26.7%)
Other 877 (17.8%)
Hospitalization 260 (5.3%)
R 216 (4.4%)
O 40 (0.8%)
Disability 24 (0.5%)
S 15 (0.3%)
Death 14 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 12 (0.2%)
L 7 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 6 (0.1%)
H 5 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 273
Disconnection 230
Suction Problem 196
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 112
Dull, Blunt 111
Inflation Problem 108
Suction Failure 103
Material Fragmentation 89
Detachment of Device or Device Component 76
Fluid/Blood Leak 60
Detachment Of Device Component 43
Leak/Splash 36
Burst Container or Vessel 31
Material Split, Cut or Torn 29
Decrease in Suction 28
Component Missing 27
Fracture 27
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 23
Difficult to Remove 23
Crack 20

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 4
93
1993: 12
94
1994: 37
95
1995: 58
96
1996: 104
97
1997: 168
98
1998: 160
99
1999: 115
00
2000: 108
01
2001: 107
02
2002: 166
03
2003: 194
04
2004: 197
05
2005: 195
06
2006: 187
07
2007: 246
08
2008: 205
09
2009: 231
10
2010: 124
11
2011: 58
12
2012: 47
13
2013: 70
14
2014: 95
15
2015: 93
16
2016: 145
17
2017: 260
18
2018: 180
19
2019: 200
20
2020: 202
21
2021: 216
22
2022: 96
23
2023: 90
24
2024: 74
25
2025: 182
26
2026: 22

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Top Manufacturers

C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 886
ETHICON, INC. 801
CARDINAL HEALTH 243
C.R. BARD INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 143
BAXTER HEALTHCARE - CLEVELAND 97

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 2,021 (43.5%)
1,339 (28.8%)
I 1,042 (22.4%)
INVALID DATA 64 (1.4%)
NO INFORMATION 56 (1.2%)
UNKNOWN 36 (0.8%)
OTHER 35 (0.8%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 22 (0.5%)
HOME 17 (0.4%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 7 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 3 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.0%)
PATIENT'S ROOM OR WARD 1 (0.0%)

Compare C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 vs ETHICON, INC. →

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 (4,648 here).

Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered 4,662 Lavage, Jet 4,670 Catheter, Flow Directed 4,682 Biopsy Needle 4,597

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (13 here), distinct from the volume row.

Chair, With Casters 13 Continuous Measurement Thermometer 13 Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit 13 Instrument, Coagulation, Automated 13

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.