2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Bit, Surgical

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, Surgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#797 of 1000 · 622 reports · 2002–2026

  • BOOK 622 reports
  • RANK #797 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 124 injury-typed
  • MALF 494 malfunction
  • SPAN 2002–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 110
  • PHOTO Accessories

Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope (1 report gap)

Bit, Surgical sits #797 of 1000 among tracked device types with 622 MAUDE reports spanning 2002–2026. 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 19.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-10.5 pp)
  • MALF 79.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+14.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 50% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 45% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 66% of location-tagged rows .

Bit, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Bit, Surgical carries 622 MAUDE reports, ranked #797 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 494 (79.4%)
Injury 124 (19.9%)
4 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

470 (73.0%)
Required Intervention 88 (13.7%)
Other 63 (9.8%)
R 16 (2.5%)
O 5 (0.8%)
H 2 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Break 323
Fracture 163
Material Fragmentation 33
Entrapment of Device 23
Failure to Cut 18
Mechanical Jam 13
Device-Device Incompatibility 11
Material Separation 10
Material Deformation 7
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 5
Delivered as Unsterile Product 5
Residue After Decontamination 5
Detachment Of Device Component 4
Detachment of Device or Device Component 4
Dull, Blunt 4
Insufficient Information 4
Material Twisted/Bent 4
Physical Resistance/Sticking 4
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 3

Yearly Trend

02
2002: 1
05
2005: 1
06
2006: 3
10
2010: 5
11
2011: 14
12
2012: 13
13
2013: 26
14
2014: 10
15
2015: 18
16
2016: 12
17
2017: 28
18
2018: 22
19
2019: 20
20
2020: 52
21
2021: 68
22
2022: 69
23
2023: 52
24
2024: 79
25
2025: 110
26
2026: 19

Related Entities for Bit, Surgical

Event Locations

410 (65.9%)
I 169 (27.2%)
HOSPITAL 38 (6.1%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.6%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.2%)

Compare SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. vs SYNTHES GMBH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bit, Surgical, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bit, Surgical 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, Surgical; 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.