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2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class I

Cane

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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FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Cane LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#904 of 1000 · 484 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 484 reports
  • RANK #904 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 137 injury-typed
  • MALF 152 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 96
  • PHOTO Patient Examination G…

Nearest event-volume peer: Patient Examination Glove (0 report gap)

Cane sits #904 of 1000 among tracked device types with 484 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Cane carries 31.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.4pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 1.0% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
  • INJ 28.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-2.0 pp)
  • MALF 31.4% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-33.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 39% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNKNOWN accounts for 77% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .

Cane in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Cane carries 484 MAUDE reports, ranked #904 of 1000.

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

Event Types

166 (34.3%)
Malfunction 152 (31.4%)
Injury 137 (28.3%)
Other 24 (5.0%)
Death 5 (1.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 266 (54.6%)
103 (21.1%)
Required Intervention 61 (12.5%)
Hospitalization 32 (6.6%)
R 11 (2.3%)
O 5 (1.0%)
Death 5 (1.0%)
H 2 (0.4%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 188
Bent 49
Unstable 44
Fracture 37
Detachment Of Device Component 22
Product Quality Problem 22
Collapse 18
Crack 17
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 14
Material Integrity Problem 11
Material Twisted/Bent 10
Insufficient Device Problem Information 9
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 8
Mechanical Problem 8
Component(s), broken 6
Design/structure problem 5
Material Fragmentation 5
Material Separation 5
Naturally Worn 5
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 5

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 10
98
1998: 12
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 5
01
2001: 11
02
2002: 4
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 3
05
2005: 6
06
2006: 6
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 4
09
2009: 7
10
2010: 5
11
2011: 17
12
2012: 55
13
2013: 59
14
2014: 96
15
2015: 22
16
2016: 21
17
2017: 17
18
2018: 13
19
2019: 8
20
2020: 4
21
2021: 11
22
2022: 10
23
2023: 18
24
2024: 5
25
2025: 7
26
2026: 38

Reports fell to 7 in 2025, down from an average of 12 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Cane

Top Manufacturers

UNKNOWN 105
MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP 31

Event Locations

317 (65.5%)
HOME 78 (16.1%)
OTHER 36 (7.4%)
I 32 (6.6%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (1.2%)
INVALID DATA 5 (1.0%)
HOSPITAL 3 (0.6%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.6%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.4%)

Compare UNKNOWN vs MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cane: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (484 here).

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Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Cane 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 Cane; 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.