Apparatus, Suction, Ward Use, Portable, Ac-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 §878.4780 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Apparatus LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#499 of 1000 · 2,026 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 2,026 reports
- RANK #499 of 1000
- DEATH 53 death-typed
- INJ 277 injury-typed
- MALF 1,651 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2021: 227
- PHOTO Tricuspid Valve Repai…
Nearest event-volume peer: Tricuspid Valve Repair Device, Percutaneously Delivered (2 report gap)
Apparatus, Suction, Ward Use, Portable, Ac-Powered sits #499 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,026 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Apparatus carries 81.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 16.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 2.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.1 pp)
- INJ 13.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-16.6 pp)
- MALF 81.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+16.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Suction Problem is 13% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .
Apparatus in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Temporary Cor…
Temporary Coronary Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft For Embolic Protection
2,032 reports
- Tricuspid Val…
Tricuspid Valve Repair Device, Percutaneously Delivered
2,028 reports
- Apparatus (this)
Apparatus, Suction, Ward Use, Portable, Ac-Powered
2,026 reports
- Pouch
Pouch, Colostomy
2,020 reports
- Valve
Valve, Pulmonary
2,016 reports
- Electrode
Electrode, Pacemaker, Temporary
2,012 reports
What this shows Apparatus, Suction, Ward Use, Portable, Ac-Powered carries 2,026 MAUDE reports, ranked #499 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 fell to 46 in 2025, down from an average of 145 in the two years before.
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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 (2,026 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (53 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.