2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Applier, Surgical, Clip

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 Applier, Surgical, Clip MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#161 of 1000 · 16,148 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 16,148 reports
  • RANK #161 of 1000
  • DEATH 40 death-typed
  • INJ 1,079 injury-typed
  • MALF 14,747 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 1999: 1,692
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial (66 report gap)

Applier, Surgical, Clip sits #161 of 1000 among tracked device types with 16,148 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 6.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.8 pp)
  • MALF 91.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+26.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Form Staple is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. accounts for 31% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location NOT APPLICABLE is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Applier, Surgical, Clip in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Applier, Surgical, Clip carries 16,148 MAUDE reports, ranked #161 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 14,747 (91.3%)
Injury 1,079 (6.7%)
Other 153 (0.9%)
129 (0.8%)
Death 40 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

8,225 (50.2%)
Other 6,967 (42.5%)
Required Intervention 736 (4.5%)
R 154 (0.9%)
Hospitalization 120 (0.7%)
Disability 45 (0.3%)
Death 39 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 34 (0.2%)
O 22 (0.1%)
S 15 (0.1%)
L 12 (0.1%)
H 8 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 6 (0.0%)
D 3 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Form Staple 1,059
Failure to Align 524
Mechanics Altered 399
Break 284
Difficult to Open or Close 245
Material Deformation 240
Failure to Fire 187
Mechanical Problem 148
Detachment of Device or Device Component 128
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 120
No Apparent Adverse Event 118
Mechanical Jam 116
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 103
Material Twisted/Bent 88
Misfire 46
Firing Problem 45
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 42
Loose or Intermittent Connection 39
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 38
Entrapment of Device 36

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 5
93
1993: 13
94
1994: 25
95
1995: 22
96
1996: 359
97
1997: 871
98
1998: 901
99
1999: 1,692
00
2000: 1,443
01
2001: 793
02
2002: 401
03
2003: 526
04
2004: 989
05
2005: 870
06
2006: 637
07
2007: 523
08
2008: 425
09
2009: 547
10
2010: 447
11
2011: 170
12
2012: 179
13
2013: 232
14
2014: 307
15
2015: 184
16
2016: 440
17
2017: 315
18
2018: 368
19
2019: 293
20
2020: 221
21
2021: 304
22
2022: 361
23
2023: 365
24
2024: 287
25
2025: 548
26
2026: 85

Related Entities for Applier, Surgical, Clip

Event Locations

NOT APPLICABLE 7,824 (48.5%)
3,760 (23.3%)
I 1,823 (11.3%)
HOSPITAL 1,637 (10.1%)
OTHER 978 (6.1%)
NO INFORMATION 49 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 45 (0.3%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 11 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 11 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 5 (0.0%)
HOME 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)

Compare ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. vs ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Applier, Surgical, 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 (16,148 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (40 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Applier, Surgical, 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, Surgical, 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.