Bit, Drill
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 §888.4540 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Bit, Drill MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#154 of 1000 · 17,754 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 17,754 reports
- RANK #154 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 2,407 injury-typed
- MALF 15,093 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2023: 1,772
- PHOTO Implant
Nearest event-volume peer: Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity (91 report gap)
Bit, Drill sits #154 of 1000 among tracked device types with 17,754 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 run above the device-type norm
Bit, Drill carries 85.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 20.2pp 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 13.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-16.7 pp)
- MALF 85.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.2 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 54% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .
Bit, Drill in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Motor
Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered
18,194 reports
- Immunoassay M…
Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit
18,095 reports
- Humidifier
Humidifier, Respiratory Gas, (Direct Patient Interface)
18,072 reports
- Bit, Drill (this)
Bit, Drill
17,754 reports
- Implant
Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity
17,663 reports
- Unit
Unit, Electrosurgical, Endoscopic (With Or Without Accessories)
17,379 reports
What this shows Bit, Drill carries 17,754 MAUDE reports, ranked #154 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 (1,527) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,597.
Related Entities for Bit, Drill
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bit, Drill: 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 (17,754 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bit, Drill 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 Bit, Drill; 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.