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
- Catheter
Catheter, Urological
16,473 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal/Polymer, Cemented Or Uncemented
16,396 reports
- System
System, Appendage Closure, Left Atrial
16,214 reports
- Applier (this)
Applier, Surgical, Clip
16,148 reports
- Cardiac Ablat…
Cardiac Ablation Percutaneous Catheter
15,997 reports
- Fastener
Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue
15,954 reports
What this shows Applier, Surgical, Clip carries 16,148 MAUDE reports, ranked #161 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
Related Entities for Applier, Surgical, Clip
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.