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 MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Bit, Drill MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#151 of 1000 · 16,997 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 16,997 reports
- RANK #151 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 2,383 injury-typed
- MALF 14,360 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2023: 1,772
- PHOTO Console
Nearest event-volume peer: Console, Heart-Lung Machine, Cardiopulmonary Bypass (264 report gap)
Bit, Drill sits #151 of 1000 among tracked device types with 16,997 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 14.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-16.4 pp)
- MALF 84.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+20.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 53% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .
Bit, Drill in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Bit, Drill (this)
Bit, Drill
16,997 reports
- Console
Console, Heart-Lung Machine, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
16,733 reports
- Humidifier
Humidifier, Respiratory Gas, (Direct Patient Interface)
16,686 reports
- Dc-Defibrilla…
Dc-Defibrillator, Low-Energy, (Including Paddles)
16,560 reports
- Unit
Unit, Electrosurgical, Endoscopic (With Or Without Accessories)
16,529 reports
- Drills
Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Simple, Powered)
16,522 reports
What this shows Bit, Drill carries 16,997 MAUDE reports, ranked #151 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
Related Entities for Bit, Drill
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bit, Drill, 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 (16,997 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.