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Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered

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 Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#626 of 1000 · 1,114 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 1,114 reports
  • RANK #626 of 1000
  • DEATH 41 death-typed
  • INJ 197 injury-typed
  • MALF 831 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 392
  • PHOTO Pulmonic Valved Condu…

Nearest event-volume peer: Pulmonic Valved Conduit (7 report gap)

Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered sits #626 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,114 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 3.7% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.2 pp)
  • INJ 17.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-12.8 pp)
  • MALF 74.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+10.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 33% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HILL-ROM, INC. accounts for 30% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 79% of location-tagged rows .

Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered carries 1,114 MAUDE reports, ranked #626 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 831 (74.6%)
Injury 197 (17.7%)
Death 41 (3.7%)
Other 31 (2.8%)
14 (1.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

756 (67.0%)
Other 259 (23.0%)
Death 41 (3.6%)
Required Intervention 35 (3.1%)
Life Threatening 10 (0.9%)
R 9 (0.8%)
Hospitalization 8 (0.7%)
H 3 (0.3%)
O 3 (0.3%)
Disability 3 (0.3%)
L 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Material Split, Cut or Torn 183
Unintended Movement 86
Use of Device Problem 36
Activation Problem 35
Insufficient Information 29
Inflation Problem 23
Pressure Problem 22
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 21
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 14
Mechanical Problem 14
Positioning Failure 14
Sparking 12
No Audible Alarm 10
Device Slipped 8
Material Too Soft/Flexible 8
Component or Accessory Incompatibility 7
Defective Alarm 7
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 6
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 6
Material Frayed 6

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 2
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 12
98
1998: 7
99
1999: 5
00
2000: 6
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 21
04
2004: 10
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 10
07
2007: 7
08
2008: 10
09
2009: 35
10
2010: 28
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 9
13
2013: 15
14
2014: 35
15
2015: 28
16
2016: 42
17
2017: 22
18
2018: 20
19
2019: 4
20
2020: 9
21
2021: 56
22
2022: 22
23
2023: 111
24
2024: 392
25
2025: 143
26
2026: 25

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Top Manufacturers

HILL-ROM, INC. 218
HILL-ROM BATESVILLE 217
BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 189
STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 69
STRYKER MEDICAL 31

Event Locations

878 (78.8%)
I 132 (11.8%)
HOSPITAL 75 (6.7%)
NURSING HOME 13 (1.2%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.5%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.4%)
HOME 3 (0.3%)
OTHER 2 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare HILL-ROM, INC. vs HILL-ROM BATESVILLE →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered, 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 (1,114 here).

Pulmonic Valved Conduit 1,107 Prosthesis 1,123 Agent 1,104 Intervertebral Fusion Device With Bone Graft 1,103

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (41 here), distinct from the volume row.

Filter, Bacterial, Breathing-Circuit 41 Hysteroscope 41 Source, Brachytherapy, Radionuclide 41 Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone 41

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered 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, Flotation Therapy, Powered; 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.