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 Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §878.4820 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#347 of 1000 · 4,301 reports · 2004–2026
- BOOK 4,301 reports
- RANK #347 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 42 injury-typed
- MALF 4,253 malfunction
- SPAN 2004–2026
- PEAK 2022: 860
- PHOTO Pump
Nearest event-volume peer: Pump, Blood, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Non-Roller Type (54 report gap)
Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable sits #347 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,301 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable carries 98.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 34.1pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 1.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.3 pp)
- MALF 98.9% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+34.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Battery Problem is 23% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS accounts for 34% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .
Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Intestinal St…
Intestinal Stimulator
4,382 reports
- Implant
Implant, Eye Valve
4,379 reports
- Pump
Pump, Blood, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Non-Roller Type
4,355 reports
- Battery (this)
Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable
4,301 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Straight
4,229 reports
- Stretcher
Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered
4,226 reports
What this shows Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable carries 4,301 MAUDE reports, ranked #347 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
Reports in 2025 (196) held close to the prior two-year average of 155.
Related Entities for Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (4,301 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.