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Applier, Hemostatic Clip

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 Applier, Hemostatic Clip LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#983 of 1000 · 361 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 361 reports
  • RANK #983 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 32 injury-typed
  • MALF 324 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 153
  • PHOTO Calibrator, Secondary

Nearest event-volume peer: Calibrator, Secondary (0 report gap)

Applier, Hemostatic Clip sits #983 of 1000 among tracked device types with 361 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 8.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-21.6 pp)
  • MALF 89.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+25.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Form Staple is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 59% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 68% of location-tagged rows .

Applier, Hemostatic Clip in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Applier, Hemostatic Clip carries 361 MAUDE reports, ranked #983 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 324 (89.8%)
Injury 32 (8.9%)
Other 4 (1.1%)
Death 1 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

306 (82.3%)
Other 26 (7.0%)
Required Intervention 16 (4.3%)
R 8 (2.2%)
Hospitalization 8 (2.2%)
L 4 (1.1%)
Death 2 (0.5%)
O 1 (0.3%)
Disability 1 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Form Staple 43
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 11
Difficult to Open or Close 10
Mechanical Problem 10
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 9
Failure to Align 6
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 5
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 4
Firing Problem 4
Loose or Intermittent Connection 4
Mechanics Altered 4
Component Falling 3
Device Slipped 3
Difficult to Insert 3
Insufficient Information 3
Material Twisted/Bent 3
Break 2
Failure to Fire 2
Mechanical Jam 2
Separation Failure 2

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
94
1994: 6
97
1997: 2
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 3
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 11
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 7
10
2010: 9
11
2011: 1
12
2012: 11
13
2013: 9
14
2014: 153
15
2015: 17
16
2016: 11
17
2017: 20
18
2018: 25
19
2019: 8
20
2020: 9
21
2021: 11
22
2022: 15
23
2023: 4
24
2024: 4
25
2025: 7
26
2026: 1

Related Entities for Applier, Hemostatic Clip

Top Manufacturers

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 140
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. 91
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. 3
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. (CINCINNATI) 3

Event Locations

245 (67.9%)
I 88 (24.4%)
HOSPITAL 12 (3.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 6 (1.7%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (1.1%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.8%)
OTHER 3 (0.8%)

Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Applier, Hemostatic Clip, 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 (361 here).

Calibrator, Secondary 361 Probe, Thermodilution 360 Stimulator 362 Crutch 363

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Applier, Hemostatic Clip 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 Applier, Hemostatic Clip; 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.