What are FDA adverse event reports for Bed, Air Fluidized?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Bed, Air Fluidized, there are 1,427 total reports including 33 death reports and 161 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Bed, Air Fluidized?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Bed, Air Fluidized

Name: Bed, Air Fluidized - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
Creator: PlainHospital
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Bed, Air Fluidized LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#570 of 1000 · 1,427 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 1,427 reports
RANK #570 of 1000
DEATH 33 death-typed
INJ 161 injury-typed
MALF 1,131 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2013: 352
PHOTO Slide Stainer

Nearest event-volume peer: Slide Stainer, Automated (8 report gap)

Bed, Air Fluidized sits #570 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,427 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 2.3% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.8 pp)
INJ 11.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-19.2 pp)
MALF 79.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+14.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 38% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HILL-ROM, INC. accounts for 51% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 79% of location-tagged rows .

Prosthesis

1,446
Slide Stainer

1,435
Bed (this)

1,427
Prosthesis

1,410
Confocal Opti…

1,409
Washer

1,404

What this shows Bed, Air Fluidized carries 1,427 MAUDE reports, ranked #570 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 1,131 (79.3%)

Injury 161 (11.3%)

Other 67 (4.7%)

35 (2.5%)

Death 33 (2.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,140 (78.5%)

Other 144 (9.9%)

Required Intervention 66 (4.5%)

Death 33 (2.3%)

Hospitalization 26 (1.8%)

R 16 (1.1%)

Life Threatening 15 (1.0%)

L 4 (0.3%)

O 3 (0.2%)

S 3 (0.2%)

Disability 3 (0.2%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 1

1993: 5

1994: 10

1995: 18

1996: 23

1997: 15

1998: 13

1999: 10

2000: 11

2001: 11

2002: 29

2003: 10

2004: 15

2005: 16

2006: 13

2007: 9

2008: 19

2009: 29

2010: 14

2011: 23

2012: 12

2013: 352

2014: 282

2015: 51

2016: 10

2017: 28

2018: 22

2019: 15

2020: 3

2021: 2

2022: 18

2023: 60

2024: 80

2025: 173

2026: 25

Top Manufacturers

HILL-ROM, INC. 551

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 227

HILL-ROM BATESVILLE 165

HILL-ROM INC. 112

HILL-ROM INC 23

Event Locations

1,134 (79.5%)

HOSPITAL 161 (11.3%)

I 60 (4.2%)

HOME 22 (1.5%)

NURSING HOME 17 (1.2%)

NO INFORMATION 14 (1.0%)

INVALID DATA 9 (0.6%)

OTHER 6 (0.4%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.2%)

UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare HILL-ROM, INC. vs BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bed, Air Fluidized, 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 (1,427 here).

Slide Stainer, Automated 1,435 Prosthesis 1,410 Confocal Optical Imaging 1,409 Prosthesis 1,446

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (33 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Umbilical Artery 33 Electrocardiograph 33 Glucose Dehydrogenase, Glucose 33 Percutaneously Delivered Prostheses And Tri… 33

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bed, Air Fluidized 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 Bed, Air Fluidized; 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.

Bed, Air Fluidized

Event-type mix vs corpus