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Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion

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 Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#558 of 1000 · 1,558 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 1,558 reports
  • RANK #558 of 1000
  • DEATH 30 death-typed
  • INJ 1,249 injury-typed
  • MALF 61 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 113
  • PHOTO Device

Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Removal, Pacemaker Electrode, Percutaneous (3 report gap)

Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion sits #558 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,558 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion carries 3.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 60.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 1.9% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.4 pp)
  • INJ 80.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+49.9 pp)
  • MALF 3.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-60.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 81% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 44% of location-tagged rows .

Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion carries 1,558 MAUDE reports, ranked #558 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,249 (80.2%)
Other 126 (8.1%)
92 (5.9%)
Malfunction 61 (3.9%)
Death 30 (1.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 571 (27.7%)
Hospitalization 481 (23.3%)
Other 362 (17.6%)
R 339 (16.4%)
88 (4.3%)
O 79 (3.8%)
Death 32 (1.6%)
L 31 (1.5%)
S 31 (1.5%)
H 24 (1.2%)
Life Threatening 15 (0.7%)
Disability 9 (0.4%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 389
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 289
Insufficient Device Problem Information 222
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 96
Reaction 89
Device remains implanted 79
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 73
Material Erosion 47
Patient-Device Incompatibility 36
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 31
Migration or Expulsion of Device 31
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 18
Explanted 17
Device Issue 13
Leak/Splash 12
Device, removal of (non-implant) 11
Defective Device 9
Noise 9
Replace 9
Telemetry Discrepancy 9

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
97
1997: 20
98
1998: 15
99
1999: 34
00
2000: 40
01
2001: 8
02
2002: 96
03
2003: 81
04
2004: 80
05
2005: 66
06
2006: 26
07
2007: 32
08
2008: 61
09
2009: 73
10
2010: 42
11
2011: 68
12
2012: 48
13
2013: 113
14
2014: 53
15
2015: 68
16
2016: 71
17
2017: 58
18
2018: 65
19
2019: 55
20
2020: 44
21
2021: 42
22
2022: 53
23
2023: 45
24
2024: 38
25
2025: 38
26
2026: 24

Reports in 2025 (38) held close to the prior two-year average of 42.

Related Entities for Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion

Top Manufacturers

ETHICON INC. 406
BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 96

Event Locations

692 (44.4%)
I 368 (23.6%)
HOSPITAL 245 (15.7%)
NOT APPLICABLE 178 (11.4%)
OTHER 29 (1.9%)
UNKNOWN 18 (1.2%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (0.7%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 7 (0.4%)
HOME 5 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (1,558 here).

Device 1,561 Modular Electromechanical Surgical System 1,552 Prosthesis 1,564 Reagent, Coronavirus Serological 1,550

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (30 here), distinct from the volume row.

Apparatus, Nitric Oxide Delivery 30 Bed, Patient Rotation, Powered 30 Cannula, Nasal, Oxygen 30 Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium Or Polyvinyl… 30

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion 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 Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion; 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.