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Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use

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 Centrifuges For Clinical Use LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#832 of 1000 · 592 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 592 reports
  • RANK #832 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 26 injury-typed
  • MALF 546 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2015: 130
  • PHOTO Unit, X-Ray, Intraoral

Nearest event-volume peer: Unit, X-Ray, Intraoral (0 report gap)

Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use sits #832 of 1000 among tracked device types with 592 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 run above the device-type norm

Centrifuges For Clinical Use carries 92.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 27.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
  • INJ 4.4% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-25.9 pp)
  • MALF 92.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+27.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECKMAN COULTER accounts for 38% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .

Centrifuges For Clinical Use in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use carries 592 MAUDE reports, ranked #832 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 546 (92.2%)
Injury 26 (4.4%)
Other 10 (1.7%)
5 (0.8%)
Death 5 (0.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

467 (77.4%)
Other 106 (17.6%)
R 7 (1.2%)
Hospitalization 5 (0.8%)
Required Intervention 5 (0.8%)
Disability 4 (0.7%)
Death 3 (0.5%)
L 2 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.3%)
H 1 (0.2%)
O 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 144
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 101
Thermal Decomposition of Device 94
Device Inoperable 85
Detachment Of Device Component 62
Charred 44
Material Fragmentation 37
Smoking 34
Device Emits Odor 30
Crack 19
Leak/Splash 18
Melted 16
Use of Device Problem 15
Mechanical Problem 14
Fluid/Blood Leak 12
Inadequate User Interface 12
Device Contamination with Body Fluid 11
Device Expiration Issue 11
Component Falling 10
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 10

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 3
98
1998: 5
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 14
04
2004: 12
05
2005: 6
06
2006: 35
07
2007: 6
08
2008: 7
09
2009: 5
10
2010: 7
11
2011: 40
12
2012: 18
13
2013: 26
14
2014: 112
15
2015: 130
16
2016: 70
17
2017: 31
18
2018: 10
19
2019: 7
20
2020: 4
21
2021: 1
22
2022: 1
23
2023: 4
24
2024: 2
25
2025: 6
26
2026: 6

Reports rose to 6 in 2025, up from an average of 3 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use

Top Manufacturers

BECKMAN COULTER 57
BECKMAN COULTER, INC. 32
TERUMO BCT 32
BECKMAN COULTER INC. 21
ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. 9

Event Locations

375 (63.3%)
I 160 (27.0%)
HOSPITAL 33 (5.6%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (1.9%)
OTHER 6 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.5%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.3%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.3%)

Compare BECKMAN COULTER vs BECKMAN COULTER, INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Centrifuges For Clinical Use: 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 (592 here).

Unit, X-Ray, Intraoral 592 Mixer 590 Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical 586 Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia 586

Similar death-typed counts

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

Anesthesia Conduction Kit 5 Antigens, All Groups, Streptococcus Spp. 5 Apparatus, Exhaust, Surgical 5 Bit, Drill 5

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Centrifuges For Clinical Use 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 Centrifuges For Clinical Use; 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.