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Arthroscope

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 Arthroscope MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#120 of 1000 · 24,657 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 24,657 reports
  • RANK #120 of 1000
  • DEATH 36 death-typed
  • INJ 2,690 injury-typed
  • MALF 21,362 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 2,427
  • PHOTO Heart-Valve

Nearest event-volume peer: Heart-Valve, Non-Allograft Tissue (191 report gap)

Arthroscope sits #120 of 1000 among tracked device types with 24,657 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 10.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-19.5 pp)
  • MALF 86.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+22.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY MITEK LLC US accounts for 34% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .

Arthroscope in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Arthroscope carries 24,657 MAUDE reports, ranked #120 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 21,362 (86.6%)
Injury 2,690 (10.9%)
Other 442 (1.8%)
127 (0.5%)
Death 36 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

21,083 (84.7%)
Other 2,079 (8.4%)
Required Intervention 1,106 (4.4%)
Hospitalization 238 (1.0%)
R 177 (0.7%)
O 49 (0.2%)
Disability 40 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 24 (0.1%)
Death 23 (0.1%)
S 20 (0.1%)
H 19 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 12 (0.0%)
L 8 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 2,099
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 1,030
Optical Problem 973
Use of Device Problem 899
Increase in Pressure 873
Electrical Shorting 656
Overheating of Device 609
Detachment of Device or Device Component 562
Material Rupture 562
Poor Quality Image 559
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 529
Pressure Problem 459
Crack 450
Improper Flow or Infusion 433
Infusion or Flow Problem 420
Overfill 390
Output Problem 365
Leak/Splash 353
Device-Device Incompatibility 348
Scratched Material 344

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 5
94
1994: 22
95
1995: 32
96
1996: 62
97
1997: 297
98
1998: 255
99
1999: 268
00
2000: 218
01
2001: 130
02
2002: 220
03
2003: 185
04
2004: 204
05
2005: 318
06
2006: 385
07
2007: 421
08
2008: 441
09
2009: 558
10
2010: 612
11
2011: 631
12
2012: 778
13
2013: 678
14
2014: 802
15
2015: 763
16
2016: 469
17
2017: 934
18
2018: 1,581
19
2019: 1,676
20
2020: 1,706
21
2021: 1,908
22
2022: 1,406
23
2023: 1,852
24
2024: 2,427
25
2025: 2,105
26
2026: 306

Related Entities for Arthroscope

Top Manufacturers

DEPUY MITEK LLC US 5,114
SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. 2,033
ARTHREX, INC. 2,005
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 1,588
MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL 1,352
DEPUY MITEK 1,307
MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC 884
STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE 732

Event Locations

13,517 (54.8%)
I 7,957 (32.3%)
HOSPITAL 2,727 (11.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 228 (0.9%)
NO INFORMATION 98 (0.4%)
INVALID DATA 38 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 31 (0.1%)
OTHER 27 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 21 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 4 (0.0%)
HOME 4 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 4 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY MITEK LLC US vs SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Arthroscope, 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 (24,657 here).

Heart-Valve, Non-Allograft Tissue 24,466 Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components 24,906 Tubes, Gastrointestinal 25,062 Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System 24,083

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (36 here), distinct from the volume row.

Compressor, Air, Portable 36 Dura Substitute 36 Heart-Valve, Allograft 36 Adhesive 35

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Arthroscope 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 Arthroscope; 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.