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Bed, Manual

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, Manual LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#685 of 1000 · 928 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 928 reports
  • RANK #685 of 1000
  • DEATH 251 death-typed
  • INJ 183 injury-typed
  • MALF 333 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2005: 68
  • PHOTO Absorbable Coronary D…

Nearest event-volume peer: Absorbable Coronary Drug-Eluting Stent (1 report gap)

Bed, Manual sits #685 of 1000 among tracked device types with 928 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Bed, Manual carries 35.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 28.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 27.0% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+25.5 pp)
  • INJ 19.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-10.6 pp)
  • MALF 35.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-28.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION accounts for 47% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 47% of location-tagged rows .

Bed, Manual in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Bed, Manual carries 928 MAUDE reports, ranked #685 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 333 (35.9%)
Death 251 (27.0%)
Injury 183 (19.7%)
Other 135 (14.5%)
26 (2.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

293 (29.0%)
Death 246 (24.3%)
Other 225 (22.3%)
Required Intervention 78 (7.7%)
Hospitalization 67 (6.6%)
R 32 (3.2%)
L 15 (1.5%)
O 15 (1.5%)
Life Threatening 15 (1.5%)
S 13 (1.3%)
H 7 (0.7%)
Invalid Data 4 (0.4%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 131
Unintended Movement 97
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 72
Entrapment of Device 68
Side rails, failure of 55
Collapse 45
Break 44
Design/structure problem 34
Use of Device Problem 34
Component Falling 31
No Audible Alarm 26
Component(s), broken 25
Material Split, Cut or Torn 25
Detachment Of Device Component 22
Bent 18
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 17
Activation Problem 15
Loose 14
Insufficient Device Problem Information 13
Sticking 13

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 11
93
1993: 8
94
1994: 9
95
1995: 23
96
1996: 26
97
1997: 54
98
1998: 64
99
1999: 52
00
2000: 51
01
2001: 46
02
2002: 49
03
2003: 29
04
2004: 26
05
2005: 68
06
2006: 24
07
2007: 30
08
2008: 17
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 12
11
2011: 12
12
2012: 9
13
2013: 25
14
2014: 20
15
2015: 9
16
2016: 3
17
2017: 8
18
2018: 3
19
2019: 7
20
2020: 4
21
2021: 8
22
2022: 23
23
2023: 60
24
2024: 44
25
2025: 61
26
2026: 21

Reports in 2025 (61) held close to the prior two-year average of 52.

Related Entities for Bed, Manual

Top Manufacturers

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 65
INVACARE FLORIDA OPERATIONS 26
UNK 24
UNKNOWN 23

Event Locations

433 (46.7%)
NURSING HOME 269 (29.0%)
HOSPITAL 96 (10.3%)
HOME 33 (3.6%)
INVALID DATA 27 (2.9%)
UNKNOWN 21 (2.3%)
I 19 (2.0%)
OTHER 14 (1.5%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (1.2%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.3%)
REHABILITATION CENTER 1 (0.1%)
RETIREMENT HOME 1 (0.1%)

Compare BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION vs INVACARE FLORIDA OPERATIONS →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bed, Manual: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (928 here).

Absorbable Coronary Drug-Eluting Stent 929 System, X-Ray, Mobile 922 Suture 936 Resectoscope 940

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (251 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Steerable 251 Pump 253 Prosthesis 255 Sv70 Ventilator 247

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bed, Manual 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, Manual; 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.