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Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, (Including Connector)

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 Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#820 of 1000 · 585 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 585 reports
  • RANK #820 of 1000
  • DEATH 17 death-typed
  • INJ 96 injury-typed
  • MALF 455 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 69
  • PHOTO Centrifuges For Clini…

Nearest event-volume peer: Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use (3 report gap)

Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, (Including Connector) sits #820 of 1000 among tracked device types with 585 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 2.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.4 pp)
  • INJ 16.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-14.0 pp)
  • MALF 77.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+13.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Integrity Problem is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC, INC. accounts for 56% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .

Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, (Including Connector) carries 585 MAUDE reports, ranked #820 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 455 (77.8%)
Injury 96 (16.4%)
Death 17 (2.9%)
Other 9 (1.5%)
8 (1.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

411 (66.3%)
Other 69 (11.1%)
Required Intervention 48 (7.7%)
Life Threatening 33 (5.3%)
R 26 (4.2%)
Death 16 (2.6%)
Hospitalization 8 (1.3%)
L 7 (1.1%)
O 1 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Material Integrity Problem 151
Failure to Capture 26
Blocked Connection 20
Connection Problem 17
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 13
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 12
Loose or Intermittent Connection 11
Output Problem 9
Defective Component 7
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 7
Device Sensing Problem 7
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 7
No Device Output 6
Break 5
Defective Device 5
Incorrect Measurement 5
Material Separation 5
Sparking 5
Pacing Intermittently 4
Use of Device Problem 4

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 6
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 4
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 10
98
1998: 19
99
1999: 21
00
2000: 10
01
2001: 3
02
2002: 6
03
2003: 4
04
2004: 7
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 3
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 11
09
2009: 5
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 4
12
2012: 8
13
2013: 23
14
2014: 67
15
2015: 34
16
2016: 28
17
2017: 5
18
2018: 16
19
2019: 11
20
2020: 31
21
2021: 7
22
2022: 49
23
2023: 29
24
2024: 40
25
2025: 69
26
2026: 39

Related Entities for Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, (Including Connector)

Top Manufacturers

MEDTRONIC, INC. 209
PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS 113
ZOLL MEDICAL CORP. 30
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 11
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES 7
OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH 6

Event Locations

360 (61.5%)
I 102 (17.4%)
HOSPITAL 97 (16.6%)
NO INFORMATION 9 (1.5%)
OTHER 6 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 5 (0.9%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.7%)
HOME 2 (0.3%)

Compare MEDTRONIC, INC. vs PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient,, 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 (585 here).

Centrifuges For Clinical Use 588 Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature 588 Mixer 588 Neurosurgical Paddie 588

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (17 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Blood Circuit, Hemodialysis 17 Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent 17 Cardiovascular Procedure Kit 17 Counter, Differential Cell 17

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, 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 Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient,; 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.