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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

#546 of 1000 · 1,538 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 1,538 reports
  • RANK #546 of 1000
  • DEATH 30 death-typed
  • INJ 1,232 injury-typed
  • MALF 58 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 113
  • PHOTO Over-The-Counter Auto…

Nearest event-volume peer: Over-The-Counter Automated External Defibrillator (0 report gap)

Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion sits #546 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,538 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 →

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 2.0% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.4 pp)
  • INJ 80.1% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+49.7 pp)
  • MALF 3.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-60.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 67% 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 1,538 MAUDE reports, ranked #546 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,232 (80.1%)
Other 126 (8.2%)
92 (6.0%)
Malfunction 58 (3.8%)
Death 30 (2.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 561 (27.5%)
Hospitalization 480 (23.5%)
Other 356 (17.4%)
R 338 (16.6%)
85 (4.2%)
O 79 (3.9%)
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 342
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 72
Migration or Expulsion of Device 20
Patient-Device Incompatibility 16
Defective Device 8
Delivered as Unsterile Product 8
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 6
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 5
Insufficient Information 5
Unsealed Device Packaging 5
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 4
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 3
Unexpected Therapeutic Results 3
Difficult to Open or Remove Packaging Material 2
Microbial Contamination of Device 2
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 2
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 2
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 1
Device Misassembled During Manufacturing /Shipping 1
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1

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: 4

Related Entities for Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion

Top Manufacturers

ETHICON INC. 392
BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 92

Event Locations

672 (43.7%)
I 368 (23.9%)
HOSPITAL 245 (15.9%)
NOT APPLICABLE 178 (11.6%)
OTHER 29 (1.9%)
UNKNOWN 18 (1.2%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (0.7%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 7 (0.5%)
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 similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion, 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 (1,538 here).

Over-The-Counter Automated External Defibri… 1,538 Equipment 1,536 Catheter, Umbilical Artery 1,535 Enzyme Linked Immunoabsorbent Assay 1,544

Similar death-typed counts

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

Bed, Patient Rotation, Powered 30 Cannula, Nasal, Oxygen 30 Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium Or Polyvinyl… 30 Cerclage, Fixation 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.