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Burr, Orthopedic

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 Burr, Orthopedic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#937 of 1000 · 414 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 414 reports
  • RANK #937 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 63 injury-typed
  • MALF 313 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2008: 56
  • PHOTO Cuff

Nearest event-volume peer: Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable (0 report gap)

Burr, Orthopedic sits #937 of 1000 among tracked device types with 414 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 15.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.2 pp)
  • MALF 75.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+11.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO accounts for 51% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .

Burr, Orthopedic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Burr, Orthopedic carries 414 MAUDE reports, ranked #937 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 313 (75.6%)
Injury 63 (15.2%)
Other 29 (7.0%)
9 (2.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

286 (68.3%)
Other 79 (18.9%)
Required Intervention 45 (10.7%)
R 4 (1.0%)
Disability 2 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 2 (0.5%)
S 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 11
Detachment Of Device Component 2
Detachment of Device or Device Component 2
Overheating of Device 2
Bent 1
Corroded 1
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1
Fracture 1
Material Discolored 1
Metal Shedding Debris 1
Physical Resistance/Sticking 1
Power Problem 1
Retraction Problem 1
Smoking 1
Sticking 1
Unsealed Device Packaging 1
Use of Device Problem 1

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 4
93
1993: 2
94
1994: 5
95
1995: 9
96
1996: 11
97
1997: 14
98
1998: 17
99
1999: 14
00
2000: 15
01
2001: 10
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 8
04
2004: 11
05
2005: 32
06
2006: 33
07
2007: 26
08
2008: 56
09
2009: 35
10
2010: 30
11
2011: 9
12
2012: 16
13
2013: 6
14
2014: 7
15
2015: 17
16
2016: 9
17
2017: 1
18
2018: 2
19
2019: 2
20
2020: 2
21
2021: 2
22
2022: 3
23
2023: 2
26
2026: 1

Related Entities for Burr, Orthopedic

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 20
DEPUY MITEK 19

Event Locations

226 (54.6%)
HOSPITAL 135 (32.6%)
I 28 (6.8%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 8 (1.9%)
OTHER 5 (1.2%)
UNKNOWN 5 (1.2%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.2%)

Compare STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO vs DEPUY MITEK →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Burr, Orthopedic, 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 (414 here).

Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable 414 Drug-Eluting Percutaneous Transluminal Coro… 415 Platelet And Plasma Separator For Bone Graf… 416 System 412

Similar death-typed counts

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

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Burr, Orthopedic 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 Burr, Orthopedic; 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.