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Apparatus, Suction, Ward Use, Portable, Ac-Powered

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openFDA event book Apparatus LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#491 of 1000 · 1,975 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 1,975 reports
  • RANK #491 of 1000
  • DEATH 45 death-typed
  • INJ 273 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,612 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 227
  • PHOTO Continuous Glucose Mo…

Nearest event-volume peer: Continuous Glucose Monitor Retrospective Data Analysis Software (3 report gap)

Apparatus, Suction, Ward Use, Portable, Ac-Powered sits #491 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,975 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 →

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 2.3% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.8 pp)
  • INJ 13.8% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-16.6 pp)
  • MALF 81.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+17.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Smoking is 10% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO accounts for 43% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 51% 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, Ward Use, Portable, Ac-Powered carries 1,975 MAUDE reports, ranked #491 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,612 (81.6%)
Injury 273 (13.8%)
Death 45 (2.3%)
Other 37 (1.9%)
8 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,575 (76.9%)
Required Intervention 158 (7.7%)
Other 110 (5.4%)
Hospitalization 71 (3.5%)
R 57 (2.8%)
Death 47 (2.3%)
Life Threatening 10 (0.5%)
S 8 (0.4%)
O 3 (0.1%)
Disability 3 (0.1%)
H 2 (0.1%)
L 2 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Smoking 135
Suction Problem 133
Inadequate Filtration Process 132
Failure to Power Up 110
Device Emits Odor 100
Suction Failure 85
Thermal Decomposition of Device 74
Filtration Problem 60
Material Frayed 59
Fluid/Blood Leak 58
Incorrect Measurement 50
Overheating of Device 47
Melted 45
Sparking 39
No Pressure 37
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 33
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 29
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 29
Device Handling Problem 27
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 24

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 8
97
1997: 7
98
1998: 6
99
1999: 6
00
2000: 13
01
2001: 6
02
2002: 9
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 24
05
2005: 69
06
2006: 53
07
2007: 48
08
2008: 57
09
2009: 34
10
2010: 7
11
2011: 9
12
2012: 18
13
2013: 12
14
2014: 68
15
2015: 118
16
2016: 119
17
2017: 102
18
2018: 170
19
2019: 132
20
2020: 89
21
2021: 227
22
2022: 215
23
2023: 187
24
2024: 103
25
2025: 46
26
2026: 7

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Top Manufacturers

STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 308
PENUMBRA, INC. 242
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP 113
ZIMMER SURGICAL, INC. 56

Event Locations

1,007 (51.0%)
I 837 (42.4%)
HOSPITAL 97 (4.9%)
HOME 7 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 6 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.1%)
IN TRANSIT TO USER/MEDICAL FACILITY 1 (0.1%)
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY 1 (0.1%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO vs PENUMBRA, 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 (1,975 here).

Continuous Glucose Monitor Retrospective Da… 1,978 Tourniquet, Pneumatic 1,978 Integrated Continuous Glucose Monitor For N… 1,969 Apparatus, Nitric Oxide Delivery 1,985

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (45 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter 45 Electrode Measurement 45 Filler 45 Glue, Surgical, Arteries 45

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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.