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.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA MAUDE casebook
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
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Shoulder, Hemi-, Humeral, Metallic Uncemented
9,877 reports
- Appliance (this)
Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component
9,772 reports
- Saw
Saw, Powered, And Accessories
9,741 reports
- Walker
Walker, Mechanical
9,696 reports
- Oxygenator
Oxygenator, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
9,642 reports
- Keratome
Keratome, Ac-Powered
9,574 reports
What this shows Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component carries 9,772 MAUDE reports, ranked #213 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
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Event Locations
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.