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Cannula, 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.

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openFDA event book Cannula, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#650 of 1000 · 1,021 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,021 reports
  • RANK #650 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 150 injury-typed
  • MALF 844 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 158
  • PHOTO Motor

Nearest event-volume peer: Motor, Surgical Instrument, Pneumatic Powered (1 report gap)

Cannula, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery sits #650 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,021 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 14.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.7 pp)
  • MALF 82.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+18.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Cannula, 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 Cannula, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery carries 1,021 MAUDE reports, ranked #650 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 844 (82.7%)
Injury 150 (14.7%)
Other 23 (2.3%)
3 (0.3%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

830 (80.7%)
Required Intervention 113 (11.0%)
Other 67 (6.5%)
Hospitalization 6 (0.6%)
R 5 (0.5%)
O 2 (0.2%)
Disability 2 (0.2%)
L 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 206
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 120
Device-Device Incompatibility 117
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 71
Delivered as Unsterile Product 57
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 42
Material Deformation 39
Crack 33
Material Twisted/Bent 30
Detachment of Device or Device Component 21
Fluid/Blood Leak 21
Material Separation 18
Mechanical Jam 17
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 16
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 12
Entrapment of Device 12
Material Fragmentation 10
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 9
Material Integrity Problem 9
Packaging Problem 8

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 11
98
1998: 3
99
1999: 5
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 4
03
2003: 5
04
2004: 4
05
2005: 6
06
2006: 11
07
2007: 7
08
2008: 15
09
2009: 14
10
2010: 14
11
2011: 11
12
2012: 3
13
2013: 7
14
2014: 8
15
2015: 11
16
2016: 63
17
2017: 46
18
2018: 58
19
2019: 62
20
2020: 158
21
2021: 149
22
2022: 83
23
2023: 74
24
2024: 98
25
2025: 71
26
2026: 11

Related Entities for Cannula, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery

Top Manufacturers

ETHICON INC. 300
DEPUY MITEK LLC US 153
DEPUY SPINE INC 116
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. 67
SYNTHES GMBH 58
COVIDIEN 38
DEPUY MITEK 26
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 16

Event Locations

I 491 (48.1%)
430 (42.1%)
HOSPITAL 71 (7.0%)
OTHER 14 (1.4%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (0.6%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.4%)
NOT APPLICABLE 4 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs DEPUY MITEK LLC US →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cannula, 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 (1,021 here).

Motor 1,020 Restraint, Protective 1,020 Bath, Hydro-Massage 1,019 Hemostatic Device For Endoscopic Gastrointe… 1,025

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Cannula, 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 Cannula, 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.