2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable

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 Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#342 of 1000 · 4,251 reports · 2004–2026

  • BOOK 4,251 reports
  • RANK #342 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 42 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,203 malfunction
  • SPAN 2004–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 860
  • PHOTO Pump

Nearest event-volume peer: Pump, Blood, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Non-Roller Type (0 report gap)

Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable sits #342 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,251 MAUDE reports spanning 2004–2026. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 1.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.5 pp)
  • MALF 98.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+34.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Battery Problem is 31% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS accounts for 34% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .

Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable carries 4,251 MAUDE reports, ranked #342 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,203 (98.9%)
Injury 42 (1.0%)
Other 4 (0.1%)
2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

4,147 (97.6%)
Other 67 (1.6%)
Required Intervention 24 (0.6%)
Death 5 (0.1%)
Hospitalization 4 (0.1%)
O 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Battery Problem 974
Unintended System Motion 490
Fail-Safe Problem 446
Break 194
Fracture 134
Complete Loss of Power 121
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 105
Device Inoperable 99
Mechanical Problem 93
Overheating of Device 85
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 63
Leak/Splash 59
Difficult to Open or Close 56
Failure to Charge 48
Defective Component 35
Fluid/Blood Leak 35
Vibration 34
Mechanical Jam 30
Crack 27
Fire 27

Yearly Trend

04
2004: 2
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 4
07
2007: 2
08
2008: 8
09
2009: 1
10
2010: 4
11
2011: 3
12
2012: 3
13
2013: 202
14
2014: 526
15
2015: 769
16
2016: 364
17
2017: 507
18
2018: 133
19
2019: 78
20
2020: 120
21
2021: 123
22
2022: 860
23
2023: 125
24
2024: 184
25
2025: 196
26
2026: 34

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Event Locations

2,441 (57.4%)
I 1,764 (41.5%)
HOSPITAL 20 (0.5%)
NO INFORMATION 17 (0.4%)
OTHER 8 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS vs ZOLL CIRCULATION →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable, 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 (4,251 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable 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 Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable; 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.