2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component

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 Appliance LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#213 of 1000 · 9,772 reports · 1995–2026

  • BOOK 9,772 reports
  • RANK #213 of 1000
  • DEATH 25 death-typed
  • INJ 7,058 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,657 malfunction
  • SPAN 1995–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 961
  • PHOTO Saw

Nearest event-volume peer: Saw, Powered, And Accessories (31 report gap)

Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component sits #213 of 1000 among tracked device types with 9,772 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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 (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 72.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+41.8 pp)
  • MALF 27.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-37.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 37% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Appliance in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component carries 9,772 MAUDE reports, ranked #213 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 7,058 (72.2%)
Malfunction 2,657 (27.2%)
Death 25 (0.3%)
Other 23 (0.2%)
9 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 6,183 (60.8%)
2,353 (23.1%)
Other 875 (8.6%)
R 318 (3.1%)
Hospitalization 302 (3.0%)
H 59 (0.6%)
Death 20 (0.2%)
Disability 20 (0.2%)
O 19 (0.2%)
S 10 (0.1%)
D 3 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.0%)
L 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2,824
Break 1,126
Device-Device Incompatibility 546
Migration 544
Fracture 257
Mechanical Problem 199
Material Twisted/Bent 121
Insufficient Information 107
Unintended Movement 104
Material Deformation 92
Device Slipped 86
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 76
Migration or Expulsion of Device 70
Mechanical Jam 64
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 63
Use of Device Problem 60
No Apparent Adverse Event 58
Crack 47
Detachment of Device or Device Component 47
Manufacturing, Packaging or Shipping Problem 45

Yearly Trend

95
1995: 1
96
1996: 20
97
1997: 50
98
1998: 43
99
1999: 27
00
2000: 31
01
2001: 28
02
2002: 35
03
2003: 45
04
2004: 43
05
2005: 44
06
2006: 31
07
2007: 45
08
2008: 66
09
2009: 45
10
2010: 121
11
2011: 196
12
2012: 527
13
2013: 898
14
2014: 445
15
2015: 401
16
2016: 400
17
2017: 485
18
2018: 597
19
2019: 800
20
2020: 942
21
2021: 961
22
2022: 627
23
2023: 554
24
2024: 523
25
2025: 692
26
2026: 49

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Event Locations

5,313 (54.4%)
I 4,205 (43.0%)
HOSPITAL 177 (1.8%)
UNKNOWN 19 (0.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 18 (0.2%)
OTHER 12 (0.1%)
HOME 9 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 7 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 5 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Appliance, 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 (9,772 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (25 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Appliance 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 Appliance; 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.