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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

#675 of 1000 · 912 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 912 reports
  • RANK #675 of 1000
  • DEATH 249 death-typed
  • INJ 182 injury-typed
  • MALF 320 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2005: 68
  • PHOTO System, X-Ray, Mobile

Nearest event-volume peer: System, X-Ray, Mobile (1 report gap)

Bed, Manual sits #675 of 1000 among tracked device types with 912 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 27.3% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+25.8 pp)
  • INJ 20.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-10.5 pp)
  • MALF 35.1% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-29.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Unintended Movement is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION accounts for 46% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 46% 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 912 MAUDE reports, ranked #675 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 320 (35.1%)
Death 249 (27.3%)
Injury 182 (20.0%)
Other 135 (14.8%)
26 (2.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

283 (28.5%)
Death 244 (24.5%)
Other 221 (22.2%)
Required Intervention 78 (7.8%)
Hospitalization 67 (6.7%)
R 32 (3.2%)
L 15 (1.5%)
Life Threatening 15 (1.5%)
O 14 (1.4%)
S 13 (1.3%)
H 7 (0.7%)
Invalid Data 4 (0.4%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Unintended Movement 95
No Audible Alarm 26
Material Split, Cut or Torn 25
Activation Problem 15
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 12
Collapse 7
Material Frayed 6
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 5
Mechanical Problem 5
Break 3
Defective Alarm 3
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 3
Patient Device Interaction Problem 3
Component Missing 2
Defective Component 2
Device Slipped 2
Insufficient Information 2
Loose or Intermittent Connection 2
Material Integrity Problem 2
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 1

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: 60
26
2026: 6

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Top Manufacturers

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 63
INVACARE FLORIDA OPERATIONS 26
UNK 24
UNKNOWN 23

Event Locations

417 (45.7%)
NURSING HOME 269 (29.5%)
HOSPITAL 96 (10.5%)
HOME 33 (3.6%)
INVALID DATA 27 (3.0%)
UNKNOWN 21 (2.3%)
I 19 (2.1%)
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 similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bed, Manual, 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 (912 here).

System, X-Ray, Mobile 913 Device 909 Implant, Fixation Device, Spinal 909 Resectoscope 920

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (249 here), distinct from the volume row.

Agent, Injectable, Embolic 247 Pump 251 Tube, Tracheal 254 Console 256

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.