2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery

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 Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#475 of 1000 · 2,062 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 2,062 reports
  • RANK #475 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 173 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,864 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 899
  • PHOTO Agent

Nearest event-volume peer: Agent, Absorbable Hemostatic, Collagen Based (1 report gap)

Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery sits #475 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,062 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 8.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-22.0 pp)
  • MALF 90.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+25.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 38% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS accounts for 55% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 76% of location-tagged rows .

Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery carries 2,062 MAUDE reports, ranked #475 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,864 (90.4%)
Injury 173 (8.4%)
15 (0.7%)
Other 10 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,851 (89.8%)
Other 169 (8.2%)
Required Intervention 36 (1.7%)
R 2 (0.1%)
Hospitalization 2 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 304
Material Fragmentation 134
Fracture 68
Overheating of Device 45
Bent 43
Material Twisted/Bent 30
Failure to Cut 28
Detachment of Device or Device Component 23
Defective Device 15
Excessive Heating 14
Detachment Of Device Component 13
Entrapment of Device 13
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 12
Temperature Problem 10
Vibration 10
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 9
Defective Component 9
Melted 9
Metal Shedding Debris 9
Insufficient Information 8

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 1
97
1997: 3
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 2
04
2004: 4
05
2005: 4
06
2006: 3
07
2007: 3
08
2008: 9
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 24
11
2011: 25
12
2012: 27
13
2013: 899
14
2014: 116
15
2015: 104
16
2016: 105
17
2017: 83
18
2018: 83
19
2019: 80
20
2020: 23
21
2021: 76
22
2022: 68
23
2023: 96
24
2024: 124
25
2025: 72
26
2026: 21

Related Entities for Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery

Event Locations

1,562 (75.8%)
I 453 (22.0%)
HOSPITAL 26 (1.3%)
NO INFORMATION 15 (0.7%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)
OTHER 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS vs ARTHREX, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery, 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 (2,062 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery 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 Bur, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery; 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.